The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still don't have a complete understanding of how they work, and what goes on ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

Imagine peeling back miles of frozen white and revealing valleys, rivers, and mountains that haven't seen sunlight in tens of ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

A crack in an ice sheet. Beneath East Antarctica's undulating ice sheet lies an ancient, river-carved landscape that provides a perfect snapshot of the region before glaciers covered the continent, a ...

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When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist, researchers have discovered evidence that ...

San Diego researchers have discovered large pools of ancient water under the ice sitting on Antarctica. KPBS Environment Reporter Erik Anderson has details. A San Diego researcher was part of a team ...

A new university-led study with NASA participation finds ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. The climate was suitable to support substantial vegetation — including ...

An ancient turtle's fossils, dating from roughly 45 million years ago, were recently discovered in Antarctica. The bones, only two fragments from a turtle's carapace, or shell, were unearthed in the ...

About 430,000 years ago, a powerful blast of superheated gas and air incinerated the surface of Antarctica. The hellish inferno came down from space like a gigantic flamethrower after a football field ...