Antarctica

The potential for the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica to collapse is determined by a newly discovered rock boundary running right down the middle of the ice.

Decades of climate change have severely weakened 24% of western Antarctica's ice.

In 2017, the open sea grew nearly 100 times its size in just a month.

European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in Antarctica.

Scientists think they know why some icebergs are emerald.

Slushy spots in Antarctica quiver with minuscule tremors as the temperature fluctuates.

Lengthening cracks in the Brunt Ice Shelf spell trouble for the shelf's future.

The Australian-Antarctic Ridge was expected to have emerged with the Pacific to its East. The real story was a surprise to geologists.

For the first time, an expedition climbed Fuji Dome in the interior of East Antarctica using a wind-blown vehicle.

There's a giant void hiding under the Antarctic ice, and it's growing larger and more menacing by the day, a new study using satellite data finds.