The hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to recover, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Our understanding of what lies beneath the world's biggest ice sheet has taken another leap forward. In this video we strip away Antarctic ice to reveal a new, and much more detailed map of the bedrock below. This map, called Bedmap2,...

Though NASA researcher Bob Bindschadler had hoped to return to Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf and continue his research during the 2009 season, this video explians how plans hit a snag. Sometimes science takes time, especially when it...

Can you stuff all the sights and science of a 12-hour mission into just three minutes? Maybe not, but here's our first try, chronicling NASA's recent flight to Antarctica's remote Getz Ice Shelf, where Operation IceBridge measured...

Not everyone was sure Kyle Krabill’s four-wheeler would function in the Antarctic cold. But with some help from the talented techs at the National Science Foundation, the little ATV played a critical role in supporting Operation...

An update on the notorious P.I.G. (Pine Island Glacier)<br/>

From the South Pole to Greenland, from Alaska’s glaciers to Svalbard, NASA’s Operation IceBridge covered the icy regions of our planet in 2017 with a record seven separate field campaigns. The mission of IceBridge, NASA’s...

Climate change is not the only factor melting the Thwaites Glacier, the Earth itself may also be warming the massive block of Antarctic ice colloquially known as the ‘Doomsday Glacier.’<br/>

New research indicates that Antarctica has been losing ice sheets by the gigaton.

In the past century, as the climate has warmed, sea level rise has accelerated. Scientists predict it will only increase, and they're studying changes in the ocean and land to better understand how and why the water is rising....

What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire you to...

Russian scientists have drilled down to Lake Vostok, nearly 13,000 feet beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, after 20 years of intermittent drilling. The lake has been sealed off from the rest of the world for perhaps 14 million years or...

Scientists have proposed a crazy plan to build a wall around the Antarctic ice sheets in a bid to slow their collapse.

Scientists said iceberg D-28 is among the largest to calve from Antarctic ice in decades, but is not caused by climate change. <br/>

An artificial intelligence program has used satellite data to project that more than 300,000 meteorites may lie undiscovered on the surface of Antarctica.

NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a...

Cuverville Island or ele de Cavelier de Cuverville is a dark, rocky island lying in Errera Channel between Arctowski Peninsula and the northern part of Ronge Island, off the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Cuverville Island was...

Microbe Hunting in Antarctica

Geologist John Goodge looks for clues about Antarctica's past in the two percent of the continent that is not covered in ice! The University of Minnesota, Duluth professor studies rocks that help provide evidence about how this desolate...

Learn some more about the hole in the ozone, as a part of environmental chemistry. The hole in the ozone layer has become thinner, mainly due to CFC’s. CFCs are inert stable molecules and were once the wonder chemical. They were...

The Gerlache Strait is named after the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache, who explored the Strait in 1898 Between the Palmer Archipelago and the Danco Coast-on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula-runs the sprawling waterway of Gerlache...

This live-action video program is about the word Environment. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Environment through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...

Few exploits of the 20th century could match the courage and perseverance of the Shackleton expedition. Ernest Shackleton became the ultimate model for crisis management when his ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition met with disaster.

The FT joins scientists from the British Antarctic Survey researching the fast-changing environment of a continent once thought frozen in time.