Category : Ice and Snow

It’s been about 20 years since the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs initiated a program to recover an ice core from Greenland. Now...

Outside of penguins and seals that congregate on the continent’s coastal fringes, Antarctica appears to be a lifeless cube of ice, where only humans have...

It won’t help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve...

Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have teamed up to explore one of the last relatively uncharted areas of East Antarctica, an...

Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica – the...

Scientists have known that lakes exist beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets since the late 1960s, but only more recently have glaciologists like Slawek Tulaczyk discovered that...

A joint team of Norwegian and American scientists spent more than three months in East Antarctica drilling ice cores, exploring subglacial lakes and taking measurements...

The ice bridge is gone. Now ice bergs are calving off the new front. But the Wilkins Ice Shelf is still hanging on, and Ted...

A new study in the journal Science challenges the long-held idea that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea level by as much as...

Stephen Warren has made eight previous trips to Antarctica to study its climate. But on his ninth visit to the frozen continent later this year,...