Antarctica sometimes reveals its hidden plumbing in dramatic color. At Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a rust-red ...

Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study it before it's ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

In Antarctica, there’s a natural phenomenon that, for more than a century, has surprised scientists and explorers: an intense ...

Beneath Taylor Glacier, several kilometres away from where Blood Falls emerges, there is a subglacial pool. It formed millions of years ago below hundreds of metres of ice. The water there has very ...

Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.