‘Additionally, the reduced weight from the melting ice above also allows dissolved water and carbon dioxide to form gas ...

Images of the largest iceberg in the world ... In 1986, A-23A initially broke off from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf near the Antarctic Peninsula but almost immediately became grounded on the ...

With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment ...

Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice ... where sea ice decreased by up to 80%, and Enderby Land, which saw a drop of up to 50%. The full dataset from 2024 isn't available yet, but continued ...

The decline of sea ice around Antarctica is fueling more frequent storms in the Southern Ocean, a new study finds.

Strong winds pushed warmer water to the surface, creating sea smoke, while blowing snow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet influenced the glacier’s land ...

the areas that aren’t shielded by ice are vulnerable to biological invaders that could seriously threaten the environment: Warming temperatures, combined with Antarctic tourism, increases the ...

The study by researchers from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre warns that the record loss of Antarctic sea ice in 2023 has led to a doubling of ocean heat loss to the atmosphere and a ...

Iceberg A23a weighs nearly 1 trillion tons and is twice the size of Greater London. The iceberg is on the move after spinning in a Taylor Column for months in the Southern Ocean. Matthew Perry ...

The Antarctic ice sheet has experienced periods of sudden melting, according to a new climate record from over 20 million years ago. This research demonstrates how sensitive the planet’s early ...

This study highlights the role of these events in chipping away at Antarctic ice in a "death by a thousand cuts," the authors write. Though extreme calving events make dramatic headlines ...