With our planet’s changing climate seeing increased levels of moisture in the atmosphere, new research using climate simulations has suggested that this could have a significant impact on Antarctica, ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future sea level rise. A study published in Nature Communications reveals ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences.

Although the current large-scale snowfall caused by atmospheric rivers helps Antarctica gain some mass, they also produce losses through the melting and destabilization of ice shelves.

Antarctica has not always been a desolate land of ice and snow. Earth's southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests teeming with life. Using satellite observations and ice ...

A river similar in size to the Rio Grande once dominated West Antarctica, scientists have discovered, offering a rare glimpse of the continent's land that is today covered in ice.

Scientists have unearthed a 40-million-year-old ancient river system beneath Antarctica's ice sheets. This discovery, made by a team of geologists led by Johann Klages, sheds light on Earth’s ...

Beneath East Antarctica's undulating ice sheet lies an ancient, river-carved landscape that provides a perfect snapshot of the region before glaciers covered the continent, a new study finds.

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future sea level rise. A study published in Nature Communications reveals ...