By Shanna Hanbury The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

There are many unknowns when it comes to climate change, like what might happen to the ice in Antarctica. Vast and remote, ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

But if the current begins to weaken, it would allow warmer water to seep in closer to the ice shelves, speeding up the melting of Antarctic ice. “Faster ice melting could then lead to further ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...