A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December, and now, photos captured by ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

The world's largest iceberg—a behemoth more than twice the size of London—is drifting toward a remote island where scientists ...

"The severity of the sea ice decline is a substantial concern." Scientists make puzzling find while examining recent ...

"The Amery is unique among Antarctic ice shelves given its long interior extent—greater than 500 kilometers (300 miles)—and extensive bordering bedrock exposures," Christopher Shuman ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet's floating shelves are thinning due to melting from below, impacting ocean dynamics and sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf remains stable, but climate models suggest ...

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

Unlike some other Antarctic ice shelves, FRIS currently appears stable in our warming world. However, previous ocean modeling ...

The iceberg cometh. The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a British island off Antarctica, potentially jeopardizing both marine life and ships in the area.

an Antarctic researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, told USA TODAY in an email. Ice shelves form when a land-based ice sheet flows out over the ocean, forming a floating structure ...

Floating ice shelves represent the greatest unexplored habitat in the Southern Ocean. They cover more that 1.5 million km2 of the Antarctic continental shelf, but only a total area of around the ...