On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy unleashed a 14-foot (4 meters) wall of seawater ... In the past decade, researchers have coalesced around the idea that marine ice sheet instability (MISI) may lead ...

Charlotte McConaghy's latest novel, Wild Dark Shore, is a propulsive literary thriller set in one of the world's most remote and rugged locations.

When a luxury ship undertook its first South America Grand Voyage, our writer was able to explore one of the world’s most isolated regions, with no other ships about ...

Matt Jordan Pehi-Neho first came to Antarctica in October 2022, spending almost a year “on ice” as living on Scott Base is referred to. The summer flashed past with the busyness ... There’s also a ...

To validate their method, the USTC team joined forces with glaciologists Professor Michael Bender and Dr. Sarah Shackleton from Princeton University. Together, they analyzed two 1-kilogram ice samples ...

Antarctica is home to around 20 million breeding pairs of penguins, like these Adelie penguins near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what's below the ice these penguins waddle on ...

Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea ... climate predictions which include modeled configuration of the past Antarctica Ice Sheet," a 2022 paper examining a far older core explains.

Between 2002 and 2010, Antarctica lost an average of 73.79 gigatons of ice per year. From 2011 to 2020, that number nearly doubled to 142.06 gigatons annually A surprising ice gain from 2021 to 2023 ...

In the autumn of 2021, an international team of researchers from New Zealand's Antarctic Science Platform set off toward the South Pole. Their destination was the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica ...

A new all-optical atom trap trace analysis technique enables krypton-81 dating of 1-kg Antarctic ice samples, reducing required sample size and extending the dating range to 1.5 million years.