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

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

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 ...

For now, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf—one of Antarctica's biggest ... depths in the nearby ocean up to the continental shelf, then along the undersea Filchner Trough toward the edge of the ...

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

Each austral winter, Antarctica undergoes a ... opened in the middle of the sea ice — one about the size of Switzerland. And ...

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 ...

Models that simulate future climate impacts will now have ... "If you then dump that warm water at the ice-bed interface, it could accelerate the flow of ice," the British Antarctic Survey ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core ... back to Europe aboard an ice breaker that must keep it at -58 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists will then analyze the ice samples ...