Nearly four kilometres beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet, Lake Vostok sits in darkness under enough ice to hide one of the ...

Professor Ersan Başar, a faculty member at Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Department of Maritime ...

Lake Vostok is one of Earth’s most isolated bodies of water, buried beneath more than 2 miles of Antarctic ice. The lake lies ...

Atmospheric rivers act like "rivers in the sky," shuttling intense bands of warm, heavy moisture from lower to higher ...

NSF awarded KBR a potential $8 billion contract to support U.S. Antarctic Program research, logistics and station operations.

Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an understudied and ...

Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice ...

Scientists found evidence that a profound change in the Antarctic Ocean followed the weakening of the Atlantic.

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports ...

A new study shows that atmospheric rivers may be responsible for up to 90% of Antarctica’s annual precipitation.

A hybrid power pilot project combining solar, batteries and hydrogen fuel cells is under development at a scientific base on ...