Antarctica is divided into three regions: East Antarctica (covered by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet), West Antarctica (covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet) and the Antarctic Peninsula. Because of ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

A fresh set of numbers is changing what scientists thought happens when a city‑sized slab of ice dissolves into the sea. The ...

The Himalayan Mountains are home to the highest peak in Mount Everest at 29,029 feet, but also to the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. Now the ...