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An iceberg one-fourth the size of Wales is about to break off of Antarctica. Credit: Copyright MIDAS Project, A. Luckman, Swansea University...

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(Credit: Getty Images) From CBS News: In a race against the clock, Mother Nature won. A Russian team that has been toiling around the clock ...

UGA research scientist Vladimir Samarkin and his colleagues measured the production of nitrous oxide, an important greenhouse gas, at Don Ju...

From Wired News/Science News: BALTIMORE — Microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be churning out large quantitie...

Image: The team's findings could help in the search for other ancient "airbursts" . From The BBC: A large space rock may have...

Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, like many of the fringes of the Antarctic continent, floats. That makes it fragile compared to ice on the c...

Satellite image showing 97km (60 mile) long iceberg, right, about to crash into the Mertz glacier tongue, left, in the Australian Antarctic ...

This image shows ice-front retreat in part of the southern Antarctic Peninsula from 1947 to 2009. USGS scientists are studying coastal and g...

Integrated Oceans Drilling Program Operations Superintendent Ron Grout on deck with icebergs in the background. (Photograph by Etienne Claas...

Airborne view of the Pine Island glacier, Antarctica. (Credit: NASA/Jane Peterson) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Jan. 18, 2010) — A new...

A catastrophic collapse is imminent, according to the latest study (Image: NASA/Jane Peterson, NSERC) From New Scientist: A major Antarctic...

(Click Image to Enlarge) From Watts Up With That? From the Australian: SEA water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher ...

Just when you think it can't get any colder (Image: Michael Studinger/Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University) From New Sci...

Terry Tickhill (light hat) and Eileen McSaveney (red headband) use a hand augur to drill Lake Vanda, Wright Valley, Antarctica during the 19...

A simple illustration of the Gamburtsevs inferred from new gravity data From The BBC: Scientists who mapped one of the most enigmatic mounta...

After three stokes of bad luck, the group launches the unmanned aerial vehicle in mission No. 4, a 15-hour trip to Terra Nova Bay and back. ...

A satellite image released by the Australian Antarctic Division howing a giant iceberg (4th from right) which is drifting towards Western Au...

From New Scientist: The cool climate of Antarctica was a refuge for animals fleeing climate change during the biggest mass extinction in Ear...

From New Scientist: A review of climate change in Antarctica forecasts that by 2100 the world's seas will have risen to levels previousl...