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 ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...

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 widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic ... now, photos captured by NASA show turquoise colored pools of water appearing along one of the region’s largest ice ...

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that ... thousands of years and now down to 1.2 million year ...

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic ... Now, the drilling is over. But the campaign to safely transport the ice back to laboratories, and then scrutinize this ...

(KATU) — Scientists studying an ice core extracted from Antarctica, which had preserved ... Riddell-Young, who is now a postdoctoral scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Research in ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that ... designed to deform ice at its pressure-melting temperature were like grabbing a bagel at the top and the bottom, then twisting ...