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

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

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

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

Grist reports that penguin guano in Antarctica may help cool the region by forming clouds through ammonia release, but ...

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

A unique ice core which is believed to be more than 1.5 million years old is being investigated to carve out information ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

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

"West Antarctica is unlikely to catastrophically lose all its ice in tens of years," she told the Guardian. "It could unfold ...