In a jaw-dropping feat, European scientists have pulled off something incredible: they’ve managed to extract ice that’s more ...

a body of water on the Antarctic coast directly south of New Zealand. "In 2022, we had a winter growth season [the period in which ice cover is usually expanding] that no one had ever seen ...

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

If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably comes ...

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 ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the extent was larger in 2024 ...

Sadly, the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet shows no sign of slowing, in fact, due to a process known as the ice-albedo feedback—when less reflective ice surface decreases solar reflectance ...

Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change.Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the Delaware-sized (5,800 square kilometers, or 2,239 square miles) A-68 ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...

No one ever expected much to happen in Antarctica ... Heat comes from near the core of the earth and warms the bottom part of Antarctic ice shelves. This geothermal warmth could greatly contribute to ...

“There's no other paleoclimate proxy on Earth that ... we can say about what's going to happen in the future.” The Antarctic ice gathered on this expedition is special not only because it ...