Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice lies a system of lakes and watercourses. A research team, including ETH researchers, has for ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years. Yet researchers have only ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

Common assumptions about the effects of the end of the last ice age may be wrong, which could have important implications for the future.

When she visited Reykjavik for the first time in 2000, Anita Rani fell in love with Iceland and promised herself she'd be ...

Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly ...

Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers and other ...

For further information, please see our April Arctic sea ice extent averaged 13.91 million square kilometers (5.37 million ...

Fast warming in the Arctic - now running at roughly four times the global average - is reshaping landscapes, affecting shrubs ...