If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

Enormous holes on Antarctica's ice shelves appear to be linked with the formation of icebergs, study reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Antarctica's going to lose a big chunk of itself. Like a Big Apple-size chunk. Cracking in a section of the Brunt Ice Shelf will break off a 660-square-mile section from the continent, NASA says. That ...

Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier could be entirely gone in less than two centuries. That’s one of the frightening conclusions reached by a team of U.S. and British scientists, who have spent ...

COVID-19 wasn’t supposed to get to Antarctica. If any place had a hope of keeping the virus out, it would be a continent with no permanent residents and an annual visiting population of only 5,000.

An iceberg larger than New York City has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said in a press release Friday that its scientists first detected vast cracks in the ...