The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

A team of 57 researchers set out on a 70-day Antarctic voyage to observe the effects of our steadily warming planet. Among their discoveries were vast areas of melting ice and microplastics in ...

A colossal oil deposit — reportedly amounting to 511 billion barrels — has been identified by Russian research missions ...

In the coming six months, Belarusian polar explorers will live on a mysterious and hard-to-reach ice continent – conducting numerous ...

There are bizarre things hidden right under the Antarctic ice, many of which we still haven't uncovered. Picture a continent where 98% of the land lies buried under ice, where temperatures plunge to a ...