But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ice loss. A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ...

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

Chen Zhao is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Dr Zhao is affiliated with Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP), at the Institute ...

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

Deep beneath the ice of East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land ... What first appeared to be a subtle dip in the planet’s gravitational field has since revealed the hallmarks of a massive buried ...

Antarctic’s ice extent on March 1 tied for the second-lowest minimum observed in the satellite record. Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to ...

Antarctica, with its vast ice-covered expanses, has long been a symbol of Earth’s remote, untouched wilderness. Yet, the ice sheets of this frozen continent are increasingly catching the world’s ...

At an event to commemorate the 25th Foundation Day of NCPOR on Thursday, Meloth said Antarctica and the Arctic are important in controlling the global weather patterns. “Recent studies have shown that ...

Model of Antarctica's Water Enhances Sea Level Forecasts Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...

Despite all its ice, Antarctica is actually a desert because so little moisture falls from the sky. The inner regions of the continent receive an average of 2 inches (5 centimeters) of ...