Entering such a cave, Jordan told Newsweek, is a recreational activity that is offered to the staffers at Scott Base on their days off. "Antarctica has several ice caves," he said, "but around ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Scientists at Little Dome C recovered the oldest continuous ice core, unlocking 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history.

Each piece “relaxes” in an ice cave for a year to get used to being at the surface. A crew makes observations in the field. A lot of students are involved. Then the cores are flown to McMurdo Station ...

A lucky group of scientists were able to explore a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice shelf broke, revealing newly exposed seafloor and a previously inaccessible ecosystem ...

the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness. The frigid ice-mass on the bottom of the world is a magnet for ambitious scientists ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

The NSIDC monitors the extent of sea ice across the globe and estimates that the annual minimum sea ice coverage in the Antarctic was about 1.98 million square kilometers or 764 thousand square miles.

Antarctic ice sheet background About 90% of the ice on Earth is located in Antarctica; if all this ice were to melt, the global sea level would rise by more than 50 meters. In addition, the ice ...