A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot ...
The first icefish was discovered in 1927, swimming in the frigid waters of the southernmost extreme of the Earth, the ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...
As global temperatures continue to rise, researchers have expressed concern about melting ice sheets in Antarctica and how ...
The three have launched the Ocean Stewardship Initiative to support the creation of a protected area in Antarctica.
Each summer, the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica turns a brighter shade of green. Vast blooms of phytoplankton ...
Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.
Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...
The newly released Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image was captured over the South Atlantic Ocean in December. The post ...
Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...
Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent. “The objectives of this campaign present unprecedented ...
Far below the ocean’s surface, a hidden circulation system quietly shapes life on Earth. Dense “deep ocean water” formed in just a few remote seas helps drive a global conveyor that redistributes heat ...