For decades, Antarctic sea ice behaved in a puzzling way. Even as global temperatures rose, sea ice around the continent was ...

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In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

In remote West Antarctica, two glaciers are melting. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers account for more than a third of the total ice loss in Antarctica. Thwaites, roughly the size of Florida, is ...

For what is likely the first time, a Ross seal has been photographed below the ocean's surface. Ross seals, the smallest and rarest members of the Antarctic true seal family, are incredibly elusive.

When researchers lowered sonar instruments into the frigid waters at the base of Alaska’s LeConte Glacier, they expected the ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

Under the ice in Antarctica’s silent world, an outstanding performer lives. One of the rarest and least studied seals in the world, the Ross seal makes noises so extraordinary that some experts ...

KILPISJÄRVI, Finland (AP) — As bubbles rippled across the frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerged from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ice. The journey had taken him 8 meters (26 feet ...