As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

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 ...

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In a turn of events that has left the scientific community in a state of shock and intrigue, the oldest human remains ever discovered have been unearthed from the frosty expanses of Antarctica. This ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...

“We are an organisation that deals with extremes – we research in the extreme conditions of Antarctica, the Arctic, even the Himalayas. What is going on in Antarctica, in its ice, its history, the ...

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 ...