Between 60 and 90 percent of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the ice sheets of Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the United States and Mexico combined. If all that ice melted, it would ...

Operation Deep Freeze 2011-2012 late winter flights, known as WINFLY, began August 20 when a C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wa., began delivering passengers and cargo to the ...

The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years, according to data from NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea level rise have not taken into account, suggesting current projections could be ...

Sea ice near Antarctica during the Southern Hemisphere summer in 2019. There is significantly less sea ice around Antarctica this year than ever recorded before. It is deep winter in Antarctica, the ...