An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

A robotic ocean float that scientists thought was lost under Antarctica’s thick ice has surprisingly resurfaced, bringing ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...

Concordia Station, jointly operated by the Italian National Antarctic Research Program and the French Polar Institute, will preserve the cores for centuries.

The clock is ticking. But low clouds have prevented helicopters from moving scientists and gear onto the continent’s ...

(CNN) — An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications ...

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

Deep beneath the Antarctic ice, a unique underground vault has opened to preserve glacier ice collected from mountain ranges around the world. The first-of-its-kind sanctuary is destined to house an ...

A technology called synthetic aperture radar (SAR) clears these hurdles by beaming out energy pulses and measuring the amount ...