In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) ...

Though stark and bare, it is surprisingly rich both in history and scientific interest. No, it doesn’t harbor ancient ...

Scientists have made remarkable discoveries beneath Antarctica's million-year-old ice, revealing ancient landscapes, subglacial lakes teeming with unique microbial life, and a network of volcanoes.

This is where the Denman glacier crashes through the Shackleton ice shelf to reach the sea in what one member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition described as "cascades of shattered ice ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

A hot spot is starting to form along the coast of East Antarctica. An ice shelf that broke apart seemingly unprovoked a couple of years ago had been steadily weakening for 30 years, largely ...

Endurance was part of Shackleton’s grandly named Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition ... only stuck for about four hours, on a small ice shelf, until the tide floated us off.” ...