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Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a ...

The study challenges a long-held assumption. Researchers issue warning on concerning phenomenon discovered in Antarctica: 'A ...

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

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

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded by absorbing more carbon. "That ice going allows that new life to come and ...

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the ...

Geologically, Antarctica isn't easy to study. Nearly all of it (98 percent) is covered by ice, with an average depth of 1.1 miles.. This has certain obvious impacts on our ability to measure anything ...