A team led by Anna Wahlin, a professor of oceanographic physics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, made a remarkable ...
A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.
The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of three ...
Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Scientists ...
Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...
The consequences will be catastrophic. For the Antarctic ice sheet to melt almost completely, a rise in average global ...
A rogue Argo oceanographic float drifted away to accidentally collect data on one of Antarctica’s most inaccessible regions.
Colgate University’s Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NASC) held the final iteration of its NASC Colloquium ...
The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica -- widely known as the "Doomsday Glacier" -- is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Its future behavior remains one of the ...