From above, Antarctica looks simple. Just a massive white continent at the bottom of the world. Endless ice. Endless cold. For centuries, explorers and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

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When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist, researchers have discovered evidence that ...

San Diego researchers have discovered large pools of ancient water under the ice sitting on Antarctica. KPBS Environment Reporter Erik Anderson has details. A San Diego researcher was part of a team ...

Antarctica. The world's most remote continent. Locked in ice for millions of years, this frozen wilderness covers an area ...