Our planet's days are getting longer. The Moon's gravity slows Earth's spin, a process ongoing for billions of years. Now, melting polar ic...

Scientists found ancient stardust in Antarctic ice. This dust comes from exploded stars. It shows Earth has traveled through space clouds. ...

Scientists discovered fossils revealing Antarctica was once a swampy temperate rainforest. This ancient forest existed around 90 million ye...

A striking satellite image reveals Gee Lake on Baffin Island, a remnant of the ancient Laurentide Ice Sheet. This ice cap, dating back 20,0...

Antarctic ice cores offer a direct window into Earth's past atmosphere, revealing greenhouse gas levels from millennia ago. These frozen ti...

Astonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...

Antarctica's ice holds secrets of Earth's past. Scientists have found evidence of a massive volcanic eruption around 1808 to 1809. This eve...

China on Saturday launched its 42nd Antarctic expedition to conduct deep drilling experiments aimed at studying the continent’s evolution a...

Geologists have discovered an old river that formerly flowed through Antarctica but is now buried below kilometers of ice.

The Ice Core Archive, housing 25 kilometres (15 miles) of ice collected primarily from Greenland, is helping scientists understand changes ...

A series of volcanic eruptions in Antarctica over a period of 192 years may have accelerated the deglaciation event and onset of the most r...

Research showed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue increasing as predicted, the giant East Antarctic ice sheet will m...

A report by NASA scientists suggests that the Antarctic ice sheet may actually be expanding, growing every year, despite a warming globe!

Annual snow accumulation on West Antarctica's coastal ice sheet increased dramatically by about 30% during the 20th century, according to a...

The secret to why Antarctica is not warming as much as the other continents, and why Australia faces more droughts lies in strengthening of...

An international contingent of polar scientists has successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica to unlock the...

Scientists have revealed that Antarctica went through a heat wave nearly 15.7 million years ago during which plants and algae were abundant...