Antarctica’s “oldest ice” has reached the next leg of its journey: a laboratory in Cambridge, England. Here, it is to undergo ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of ...

A study published in ‘Nature’ finds that the fecal waste these animals generously spread around the area releases ammonia, a ...

Hidden beneath the thick, frozen skin of East Antarctica lies a surprising discovery—ancient river-carved landscapes that may ...

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published Dec. 1, 2009 by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ...

Antarctica’s oldest ice has arrived in the UK for testing, which could reveal more about the Earth’s climate. Scientists ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

A better understanding of this dynamic could help scientists hone their models of how Antarctica will transform as the world warms. They can now investigate, for instance, if some penguin species ...

The speed of climate change on the edge of Antarctica is four times faster than the average of other ecosystems. File Photo by Chris Larsen/NASA March 19 (UPI) --In recent years, Antarctica has ...