The vehicle’s mission yielded key findings on glacial melt and deep currents before it disappeared under mysterious ...

A weather-mapping system has captured a large wave anomaly between Antarctica and southern Africa for the second time in a ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists with the Australian Antarctic Division are testing Antarctica's waters for acidity, salinity, temperature, and oxygen content using underwater robots.

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate ...

Related: Earth from space: High winds paint puzzling ice streaks across the sea in Antarctica FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental shelf ...

Ice in Antarctica flows to the coast along glacier-filled valleys. While some ice melts into the ocean, a lot breaks off into icebergs, which range in size from small chunks up to the size of a ...

The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.

In the winter of 1999, Guy Williams took a trip to the Antarctic. A PhD student in oceanography at the University of Tasmania, he had become fascinated with the role polynyas—unfrozen expanses of ...

Royal Navy personnel are helping scientists warn of potentially catastrophic tsunamis by researching huge underwater volcanoes on the edge of Antarctica. Navy icebreaker HMS Protector has used her ...