The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

Deep beneath the frozen desert of western Antarctica, an active volcanic rift stirs silently, concealed under an ice sheet up ...

The West Antarctic Rift System is home to more than 130 volcanoes, and the region’s receding ice sheet could slowly wake them ...

In West Antarctica, the interior of the ice sheet sits atop bedrock that lies well below sea level. As the Southern Ocean warms, scientists are concerned the ice sheet will continue to retreat ...

The study conducted over 4,000 computer simulations to explore the interaction between ice loss and the volcanoes buried ...

There are five types of killer whale in Antarctica, but only three found in these waters, near the peninsula south of South ...

The glaciers' floating fronts join to form a single, continuous platform, or shelf Wherever you look in West Antarctica right now, the message is the same: Its marine-terminating glaciers are ...

Hotspots are located under West Antarctica; in contrast, the East is broadly relatively cold This is the best map yet produced of the warmth coming up from the rocks underneath the Antarctic ice ...

The Antarctica Peninsula where to the west Chile and Argentina are hoping to establish an MPS Argentine and Chilean relations have not been traditionally smooth given the several borderline ...