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

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 ...

Scientists have returned to East Antarctica this month to locate the oldest ice on Earth. The team is part of an EU-funded research consortium from 10 European countries whose aim is to drill an ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic. Satellite imagery suggested ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

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 ...

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab ...

Antarctica holds 90% of the world’s fresh water and God help us, if it melts], whales will be swimming in the streets of New York — Jacques Yves Cousteau ...

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December ... appearing along one of the region’s largest ice shelves, indicating that global warming is ...