More than two-thirds of all the fresh water on Earth is sitting in a single location at the bottom of the world, frozen solid ...

An international team of scientists has described a giant fan-shaped province of subglacial basins in East Antarctica, formed ...

Coastal cities from Miami to Mumbai sit on land that would vanish beneath the ocean if Earth’s two largest ice sheets, ...

A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure.

Earth rotation climate change is altering our planet’s spin at a rate unmatched in 3.6 million years, a new study finds.

Ancient dust from Antarctica reveals signs of a major ice retreat and warns of future global sea-level rise in the coming ...

Scientists have identified a hidden climate tipping point that changed how Antarctica's ice sheet responds to warming.

Antarctica's ice crossed a silent climate threshold one million years ago, and the consequences are still unfolding.

There’s a greater need than ever to understand how climate change in Antarctica will have global consequences – but research ...

Greenhouse gases trapped in 3,000 year-old Antarctic ice are being extracted and analysed for clues to Earth's climate ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

Antarctica’s vast ice sheet may have crossed a hidden climate threshold about one million years ago, fundamentally changing how it responds to shifts in Earth’s climate. Credit: Shutterstock ...