"Yet, even in the deep chill of East Antarctica, the change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front." 1 of 2 NASA image of blue meltwater pools on the Amery Ice ...

Temperatures during January and February range from -15°C to -35°C inland and reach up to 0°C along the coast. Antarctica's inland plateau has been called a polar desert. Very little moisture ...

Because ice shelves in Antarctica permanently extend well beyond the landmass itself, a full crossing begins and ends at the open ocean via the South Pole. An inland crossing, on the other hand ...

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...

Meteorologist Kylee Miller said January is actually the warmest month in Antarctica, when highs reach the 30s to 50s, depending on whether the location is inland or on the coast. Chicago is also ...

John Yang: Finally tonight, scientists say they've tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth's climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it'll help them understand both how ...

Dome A is an Antarctic plateau 1.200 kilometers inland, and is thought to be one of the coldest naturally occurring places on Earth with temperatures believed to reach minus 90 degrees Celsius.

Distant view on an Antarctic ice shelf. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 22, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Bert Wouters at the University of ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. Look at this slideshow to see how the position of the Earth ...