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Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building ...
Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more ...
A massive slab of ice that has been drifting through Antarctic waters is crumbling into smaller pieces, and it's happening ...
The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...
After scientists reported a brief but notable uptick in ice mass in Antarctica, climate skeptics utilized the data to claim ...
A chemical analysis of rocks from an ancient lost world hidden beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica has yielded several new ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
The maps were produced from composited image swath data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over Antarctica for the 2003-2004 austral summer season..
Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland seems particularly large. It’s true that the landmass isn’t exactly small, but its true size is nowhere near that ...
The Antarctic Slope Current shields Antarctica from warm waters. But new research shows meltwater is speeding up the current, which could make it more unstable.
There's an entire mountain range as big as the European Alps completely hidden under Antarctica's ice that no one has ever ...