Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said Robin E. Bell, referring to icy moons. Bell is a research professor at Columbia ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Scientists have discovered amber in the sediment core recovered from thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a baffling finding that could indicate the existence of an ancient temperate ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

One of the most unknown places on Earth is Antarctica. A place that has been analyzed in recent decades and still holds many mysteries. Some of them have been solved recently thank ...

(MENAFN) As part of the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project, research specialists have successfully extracted deep ice cores from Antarctica in an effort to explore Earth's climate history ...

With the icebergs covering the seafloor, organisms below the shelf cannot get nutrients for survival from the surface. The ...

The samples from the Arctic are one million years or more. More accurate data regarding the age of the probes from Antarctica are not available at the moment. The expedition that gathered them ...

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai. This species lived around 68 million years ago.