More than twice the size of greater London, the expanse of ice is unpredictable and dangerous.

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

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

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

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

ESA and NASA Satellites Deliver First Joint Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet ... have created a new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages. It reveals that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted ...

Thompson said the ice shelves act “like dams by holding back the flow of ice from the Antarctic continent into the ocean”, and the researchers wanted to understand their structure and stability.

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the ...

Ice, ice, baby. There’s no escaping it here ... I’m snorkelling among bergy bits off Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s 0.5 degrees in the water. I can’t feel my face.

Antarctic sea ice dropped to a record low in 2023. A new study says the loss of ice that year contributed to an increase in ocean heat loss and storms. The annual maximum sea ice extent dropped to ...