A fortuitous team of scientists had the opportunity to venture into an uncharted region of the Antarctic following the unexpected break of an ice shelf. This event exposed a previously unseen seafloor ...

Scientists explored the seafloor after an iceberg broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. They were shocked by what they found.

In January, a giant piece of ice broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, revealing a seafloor ecosystem that has never been accessible to humans. What scientists found was both stunning and surprising, ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

The updated map of Antarctica clearly shows the landscape beneath its massive ice sheet, including its tallest mountains and ...

Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...

The deep seafloor showed a flourishing ecosystem, and the team believes they may have discovered several new species during their research.

As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica—covered an area of 705,221 km² and held approximately 121,728 billion tons of ice worldwide. Since then, ...

Buttressed by glaciers from the East and West Antarctic Ice sheets, RIS is roughly the size of Spain, France, or Texas. Naturally, the ice shelf has long stirred geologists’ curiosity, but never did ...

which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...

Introducing Voice of the Sea Ice, a new miniseries about Antarctica. In this first episode, Claire Concannon recounts some epic historic and modern expeditions and learns that there are many types of ...