Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Historical evidence indicates that similar processes may have occurred during the last ice age when Antarctica’s ice sheet was much thicker. While the study emphasizes the slow pace of these ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they ...

Australian scientists are monitoring the rapid melt of Denman Glacier, one of the largest frozen rivers in East Antarctica.

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica. Working at temperatures of -35C, a team of scientists extracted a 2.8km-long ...

Ice that built up in Antarctica over tens to hundreds of thousands ... spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,000 years ago.

Dec. 13, 2024 — Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath ... have created a new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages. It reveals that the early Antarctic ...