Beneath the flattest, most featureless stretch of the East Antarctic ice sheet lies a body of liquid water roughly the size ...

In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ice over ...

Instead of observing the light coming to us, we study the debris of exploding stars right here on Earth. As cosmic furnaces, ...

Bukhta Sever, the Arctic oil terminal built for Rosneft’s massive Vostok Oil project, has sent out its first export cargo. Or ...

Russia has begun loading crude from its giant Vostok Oil development onto tankers at the newly built Bukhta Sever terminal on the Kara Sea, marking the start of what could become one of the largest ...

The important role ships play gathering scientific data in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been outlined at a leading Antarctic science conference in Hobart. The biennial Australian Antarctic ...

Russia’s massive new oil field in the Arctic, Rosneft’s flagship Vostok Oil, officially began operations on September 5. Underlining the significance of the project, President Vladimir Putin ...

East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. Researchers found that warming thousands of miles away in the ...

A lake nearly the size of Lake Ontario lies in complete darkness beneath East Antarctica. Its water remains liquid under an ice sheet measured in miles, cut off from direct contact with the atmosphere ...

A rare surge in Antarctic snowfall temporarily added hundreds of billions of tons of ice to East Antarctica, even as the continent’s long-term losses continued. Credit: Shutterstock A tropical warming ...

The “Blue Bell licker” will have some competition this week, as Texas’ favorite ice cream brand brings its Lone Star Scoop Tour to Lufkin Friday. Blue Bell will pay a visit to the Brookshire Brothers ...