Antarctica has lost roughly 12,820 square kilometers of grounded ice, an area about 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles, over the past three decades. A 30-year satellite study led by University ...

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...

Rothera on Adelaide Island is the UK's largest Antarctic research station. Until recently, station support assistant Kirsten Shaw ran its mail service out of a handmade box. But only this month, the ...

A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...

The great majority of ships operating in Antarctica are ice-strengthened but Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot is the world’s ...