By Shanna Hanbury The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the ...

The rate of ice melting in Antarctica could be underestimated by current scientific models, according to research examining ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

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

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

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

Since 1975, glaciers (excluding Greenland and Antarctica) have shed over 9,000 billion tons, contributing 18 mm to sea-level rise since 2000, with 25-30% of that rise from glacier melt ...

It can also cause further melting under ice shelves ... More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades. These discoveries provide valuable ...