During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

The team undertook two research trips on the RV Polarstern in 2016 and 2017. Those trips resulted in the collection of seafloor bathymetric data and sediment cores, which later formed the focus of ...

The Coast Guard was called multiple times last winter after sleds went through the ice on their way to the Lake Superior ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...