Researchers hoping to collect mud samples from deep under an Antarctic ice shelf were amazed to find small creatures living in the dark, freezing water. Experts from the British Antarctic Survey ...

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...

Recently, an international team of researchers drilled the Antarctic ice sheet and extracted a colossal 2,800-meter (9,186-foot) long ice core, which is equivalent to the length of the Golden Gate ...

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice sheet in the world, long withheld a profound secret under its ...

Antarctic ice sheet background About 90% of the ice on Earth is located in Antarctica; if all this ice were to melt, the global sea level would rise by more than 50 meters. In addition, the ice ...

While other ancient climate records exist, only the ancient ice near the poles holds a perfect record of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide levels and temperature. Receive a weekly dose of ...

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...