Antarctica

New research links a striking red waterfall in Antarctica to underground brines.

Winter has descended on Antarctica. Even as cold and darkness blankets the bottom of the world, the region's most watched ice shelf is is continuing its epic breakdown.

The secret life of whales has been revealed.

Much of the Antarctic continent is threaded with rivers, pools and streams of melting drainage water, which could mean the continent is more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

The iceberg's release could be in a matter of days or years.

A volcano on Antarctica's Deception Island nearly wiped out one of the continent's largest and oldest penguin populations ... not once but three times throughout history.

A new map puts Antarctica into three-dimensional perspective with an aerial view of the continent's ice, created from 250 million satellite measurements.

Earth's gravity is strong, but can water ever naturally go against it and flow uphill?

Sea ice at Earth's poles is dwindling, and it reached record lows this month, scientists report.

There are 3.6 million more penguins in Antarctica than previously estimated.

The internet-named robot sub will collect ocean data.

No, Antarctica isn't busting out the green beer for St. Patrick's Day. But a new satellite image of the continent shows strange green ice floating in the Ross Sea.

A chunk of ice covering an area larger than the state of Rhode Island is about to snap off Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf.

'Aftershocks' from a major iceberg break caused Antarctic glacier to shed another.

Pine Island Glacier, the longest and fastest flowing glacier in Antarctica, has calved multiple icebergs, as can be seen in a series of photos.

A hypothesis about meteorites gets put to the test in a new mission to the icy continent.

A new satellite image shows the disappearing Larsen Ice Shelf of Antarctica.

The could could cause the ice shelf's collapse this year.