The Latest Breaking News from Antarctica

Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the past 25 years, a satellite analysis showed on Wednesday. The first-of-its-kind study, led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near…

Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the past 25 years, a satellite analysis showed on Wednesday.

The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not any more. And our new research, published in Nature,…

As Antarctica’s slow rivers of ice hit the sea, they float, forming ice shelves. These shelves extend the glaciers into the ocean until they calve into icebergs.

Warmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research which reveals a potential new driver of global sea-level rise.

Arctic Trucks didn't hold back in building this rig for conquering Antarctica.

Geological formations that hold vast amounts of groundwater under Antarctica's ice sheet could be causing it to shrink more quickly, a new study suggests.

The important provisions and status of the Bills introduced in the Parliament during the March-April session

British Army medical officer Preet Chandi became the first woman of colour to complete a solo, unaided trip to the South Pole in January.

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Researching convicts and ghosts has taken the museum curator to some of the world's most remote places — but after 40 years, there's still one mystery she desperately hopes can be solved.