Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a landmass that was last exposed 40 million years ago. What does this land ...

Scripps Oceanography-led work for the next three years aims to detect carbon and temperature trends in the Southern Ocean and ...

Scientists are racing to find out whether rapid glacial melt could drive a surge in eruptions — and what that means for ...

New studies about the Thwaites Glacier, also called the "Doomsday ... size of Texas sitting in a basin below sea level in Western Antarctica. The only bulwarks that prevent the ocean from filling ...

A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent ...

An increasing number of luxurious expedition cruises and cruise-only voyages on larger liners has brought a surge of ...

In recent months, scientists have observed significant activity at Iceland's Askja volcano, raising concerns that melting ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month.

(NASA/USGS via CNN Newsource) Pine Island Glacier is a vital and highly monitored part of Antarctica that is threatened by a warming world. The glacier acts like plumbing for the massive ice sheet ...