For a long time, scientists knew of a “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica—an area with particularly weak gravitational force. Considering the various threats currently faced by the region, scientists ...

The eclipse travelled over Antarctica, meaning that it visible mostly to penguins, though the path of totality also stretched ...

For all their charm and Gen‑Z spirit, the Olympic mascots echo a reminder beneath the celebration: the mountains hosting the ...

From The Gambia to the US, sea salt is increasingly seeping into the freshwaters people need for drinking and producing food.

An international research team co-led by a researcher from ETH Zurich has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet ...

“To our knowledge, the longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than 10 m. We exceeded our ...

An international team has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back millions of years that ...

One in nine new homes built in England between 2022 and 2024 have been constructed on land at risk from rising water levels, a new report by Aviva reveals.

The Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the 'Doomsday Glacier,' is a massive Antarctic ice body crucial for global sea levels. Its ...

A marine researcher says he has video evidence of the first recorded shark in the Antarctic Ocean. Alan Jamieson says many ...

An annular eclipse swept over a remote corridor of Antarctica on Feb. 17.

Forte and colleagues now believe Antarctica’s gravity hole was weaker before eventually intensifying around 30 to 50 million years ago. This corresponds to large-scale changes in the continent’s ...