Amid its colossal chunks of ice sheets, Antarctica harbors a land of fiery volcanism. Although the vast majority of these volcanoes are dormant, idle, or hidden beneath the ice, there is some ...

Antarctica, home to the world’s largest ice sheet, is famous for its endless snowscape and, to a lesser extent, its communities of penguins. Most of us wouldn’t associate it with ominous ...

The heat source isn't a new or increasing threat to the West Antarctic ice sheet, but may help explain why the ice sheet is so unstable today The Antarctic is being melted from below, according to ...

Subglacial volcanoes could erupt if ice melts sufficiently, triggering catastrophic feedback loops. '2,500 and counting': DESI finds thousands of hidden black holes in dwarf galaxies Think you can ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...