The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

A team led by Anna Wahlin, a professor of oceanographic physics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, made a remarkable ...

The Thwaites Glacier, located in West Antarctica and popularly nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier,” holds enough ice to raise ...

Thwaites lines up most closely in longitude with U.S. Mountain time, so that’s what this expedition will be using. But our ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a thriving ecosystem beneath it, according to researchers. On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from the ...

ANTARCTICA -- An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according to the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists first discovered significant ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

The South Georgia Islands might not be permanently populated by humans, but it is an important sanctuary for penguins, seals and other various creatures in the South Atlantic. But a giant iceberg, ...