Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

If you were to wander along the parts of Antarctica that are ice-free, you might be surprised to see something soft and ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...

Ancient Antarctic Bottom Water expansion triggered carbon release and ended the last Ice Age, offering critical insight into ...

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the ...

Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...