The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we ...

East Antarctica’s tectonic plate probably broke off of the supercontinent about 80 million years ago, with today’s ice sheet forming 34 million years ago. Today, the researchers write, the flat ...

Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath the East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the ...

Researchers map an ancient hidden river in Antarctica, uncovering flat terrain beneath the ice sheet that could influence ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

Atmospheric rivers over Antarctica are a little more sensitive to the increasing levels of moisture in the atmosphere, so researchers decided to plug a bunch of data into a simulation to find out ...

However, the path taken by atmospheric rivers in Antarctica and the amount of moisture they carry have distinct and unique characteristics compared to those in other regions,” she said.

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

Rainfall in Antarctica: Simulations indicate that atmospheric rivers can produce several millimeters of rain, even in winter. Often, rainfall falls directly as supercooled drizzle—rain that ...

How Rivers in the Sky Melt Huge Holes in Antarctic Ice New research is causing scientists to rethink how polynyas—massive openings in the sea ice—are formed Ainslie Cruickshank, Hakai March 2 ...