If life can thrive and survive under the ice in Antarctica, it might also be possible it can thrive in extraterrestrial environments too' ...

The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

Data out of Chile suggests that as glaciers and ice caps melt in volcanic regions, released pressure and magma build-up makes eruptions increasingly likely — which could lead to a vicious circle where ...

Understanding Why Antarctic Ice Loss Matters Antarctica may seem like another world—cold, distant, and forgotten—but what goes on there is already beginning to affect Antarctica may be remote, but ...

Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

A top climate scientist says we may have crossed a dangerous tipping point in Antarctica—and the long-term fallout could be ...

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

Scientists aren’t too optimistic and have said there’s a 'grim outlook' if the glacier melts, plunging parts of the world ...

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.