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 ...

Scientists have finally discovered what's causing a Switzerland-size hole to repeatedly open up in Antarctica's sea ice.

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 ...

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 ...

These discoveries are essential for understanding how deep waters, such as the so-called “modified Circumpolar Deep Water” (mCDW), are transforming the balance of Antarctic ice and their ...

(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 ...