Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each summer ...

This newly extracted ice preserved a record of our planet’s climate history, continuous information on atmospheric ...

An international team of scientists say they’ve drilled nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock, retrieving one of the oldest ice cores at 1.2 million years old.

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million years.

A Portsmouth scientist aboard a Royal Navy icebreaker is uncovering the damage plastic waste is having on Antarctica.

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

As ice recedes, hidden volcanoes under Antarctica awaken, reshaping predictions for climate change. When glaciers melt, they ...

Although the remains that they find are initially mistaken to be those of a prehistoric human society, it is ultimately ...