Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

The Coldest Place on Earth Antarctica is the epitome of frigid climates, with temperatures that can make you shiver just ...

The frozen continent has never been so desirable. But as other nations try to get in on the action, a race to the bottom ...

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Happy Valley-Goose Bay family physician Samantha Harper ran an ultra-marathon in Antarctica. (Submitted by Samantha ...

It’s cold! Surprised? A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just has to be very dry. Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth. This continent, lying at the bottom of the world, covers a ...

It’s surreal to look back at the ship’s bow totally engulfed by ice. We’re the only living, breathing things here – until a ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 billion tons per year. And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend ... This is similar to how dunes form and move in a desert. However, new computer models are needed to simulate the formation and ...