For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

In the first study to consider the long-term evolution of the rivers that flow beneath glaciers, researchers have new ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...