Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

Camped on Antarctic sea ice with a ... again—by fur seals. "If they have a choice, they'll move indoors," Keough says. "They're wedged into buildings side by side, leaping out at you from ...

An extensive model of the Antarctic ice sheet is helping researchers peer deep beneath the ice to reveal the continent's ...

If the sheets of ice that sit on top of Antarctica and Greenland were to collapse, the rate of sea-level rise could skyrocket, making coastal cities uninhabitable and destroying trillions of ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating ... the mechanism that sustains life beneath the ice sheet, though how that works precisely isn't yet ...

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...

These effective predators live in frigid Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters, where they also eat penguins. They often wait underwater near an ice shelf ... skin like its fur seal relatives.

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ice loss. A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ...