A colossal oil deposit — reportedly amounting to 511 billion barrels — has been identified by Russian research missions ...

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Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

This week, scientists are intrigued by the discovery of a nearly white penguin that was discovered in Chilean Antarctica. The penguin, which is a female, is part of a colony of Gentoo penguins — who ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological mystery.

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air bubbles trapped ...

An enormous subglacial trough, deeper than the Grand Canyon, has been discovered in Antarctica. The project involved a large team of U.K. scientists and researchers working the Ellsowrth Subglacial ...

A robot found over 1,000 organized fish nests under Antarctic ice, revealing geometric breeding patterns and new clues about ...

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A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...