ANN ARBOR — Amy and Tom Knutilla recently traveled to their seventh continent in a journey that was the first of its kind.
The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...
Eruptions of subglacial volcanoes may not be visible on the surface, but they can have consequences for the ice sheet. Heat ...
An international group of researchers excavated the ice at Little Dome C Field Camp in Antarctica, located 10,607 feet (3,233 ...
The passage of Cape Horn represents the southernmost point of the race, the most intense in terms of current, with a strong ...
“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe — and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 ...
Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period ... driven partly by an El Nino phenomenon that elevated heat ...
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off. The reason is that this unloading of ice sheets reduces pressure on magma chambers below the ...
An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...
Analysis of the ice should provide insight into how Ice Age cycles have changed, and may help in understanding how ...