The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...
Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...
Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...
The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...
An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
A 2018 study suggested that people working in Antarctica over the winter enter a state of “psychological hibernation,” marked ...
University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound, which will prove ...
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...
"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.
The trillion-ton slab of ice, called a megaberg, could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or be guided around it by ...
Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.