While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

Scientists believe this pattern of weakening could be an early warning for other Antarctic ice shelves as well.

Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal. The glacier is about 115 square miles (or roughly the size of Philadelphia ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level rise.

The Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica has lost half of its ice in roughly two months. Researchers say this lightning-fast retreat is reminiscent of the Ice Ages, and could signal a bigger concern when it ...