Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the ...

Four-year record of ocean processes beneath the Ross Ice Shelf suggests water quality varies throughout the year within the ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

Scientists compared ice behavior in West Antarctica and East Antarctica — two massive ice sheets once thought to respond ...

Scientists are building a library of sorts on Antarctica, but you won't find books on shelves, or even a librarian on premises.

The newly released Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image was captured over the South Atlantic Ocean in December.

From sealing captain Nathaniel Palmer to Adm. Richard Byrd and Quonset's role in Operation Deep Freeze, RI has left its mark ...

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

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BEIJING -- China's Fengyun-3D satellite has found that the world's formerly largest iceberg, A23a, is entering the final ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...