UW–Madison researchers show a 40,000-year obliquity cycle in Antarctic ice growth altered Southern Ocean nutrients, boosting ...

A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet thinned rapidly between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago, then likely re-thickened ...

Antarctica has lost roughly 12,820 square kilometers of grounded ice, an area about 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles, ...

Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away in the ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research.

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...