It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Antarctica sometimes reveals its hidden plumbing in dramatic color. At Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a rust-red seep known as Blood Falls has puzzled observers since 1911. The spectacle ...

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

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 ...

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

Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first evidence of the immense physical pressure behind this eerie natural phenomen ...

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

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

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 ...