ANTARCTICA

An ancient lake, hidden beneath 1.8 miles of ice in the western Antarctic area, could contain clues about climate change and future changes in sea level, as well as potentially uncovering new forms of life, according to a team of UK-based researchers and scientists.

A team of British scientists will travel to Antarctica later this month, according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), hoping to discover forms of life that could have been trapped in a lake buried under 2 miles of ice.

As if the news about the Arctic's ozone hole outsizing the hole in Antarctica in early 2011 wasn't bad enough, Tuesday, NASA officials released more bad news: sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached its second lowest level in recorded history in September.

A man-made ozone hole has formed above the Arctic comparable in size to the ozone hole above Antarctica, researchers reported Monday.

New Zealand's famously lost Emperor penguin, Happy Feet, has been returned to the Southern Ocean, and we can all track his journey back to Antarctica online.

Famous penguin returns to the wild.

The lost Emperor Penguin that washed up on Peka Peka Beach in New Zealand in June was released finally into sub Antarctic waters in the Southern Ocean on Sunday.

Mount Erebus in Antarctica, the southernmost active volcano on Earth, has numerous ice caves beneath the multiple sheets of ice.

For the first time, NASA researchers have mapped the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.

In a bid to track future sea-level increases from climate change, researchers at NASA have come out with the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.

The map, which will be beneficial for tracking future sea-level increase from climate change, provides the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. It shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent's deep interior to its coast, NASA said.

NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, giving critical insight into future sea levels.

NASA-funded researchers created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, showing glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent's deep interior to its coast.

NASA has teamed up with researchers from the University of California and various space agencies to map the Antarctica ice flow.

The wayward Emperor Penguin "Happy Feet" is leaving New Zealand's Wellington Zoo and heading home to Antarctica at the end of the month.

A devastation of conifer forests about 250 million years ago was caused by tree-killing fungi whose growth was triggered by global climate change, says a University of California, Berkeley, study that warns it could happen again.

A powerful tsunami in Japan back in March sent waves more than 8,000 miles away that sliced off icebergs in Antarctica twice the surface area of Manhattan, NASA scientists say. Details of the finding, the first observation of its kind, can be found in an article published in the Journal of Glaciology.

Scientists have new evidence that life on Earth may have come from space after finding essential building blocks of DNA in meteorites discovered in Antarctica.

The Tsunami generated by the powerful earthquake that shook Japan on March 11 sent waves an entire hemisphere away that sliced off about 50 square miles of icebergs in Antarctica that were twice the surface area of Manhattan, NASA scientists say. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere specialist at Goddard Space Flight Center, and her colleagues were able to link the calving of icebergs from the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica following tsunami that sent waves 8,100 miles away.

NASA scientists were able to observe for the first time the powerful effects of an earthquake and tsunami combined, which broke off large icebergs a hemisphere away off the coast of Antarctica.

A new analysis suggests that DNA building blocks embedded in meteorites found in Antarctica originated in space, adding weight to the theory that the seeds of life on Earth originated in space.