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

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...

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Towards the end of 1977, the Argentinian government airlifted the heavily pregnant Silvia Morello de Palma to the country’s ...

Deep beneath the thick layer of million-year-old ice, something is lurking quietly, waiting to rip through the rigid ice ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed, revealing ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

(via PBS Terra) If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, but new evidence suggests that West Antarctica - ...

New evidence suggests that West Antarctica - which holds around 5 METERS of sea level rise - is melting a lot faster than scientists once thought. Weathered is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...