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Satellite data shows that Antarctic ice sheets have grown in size, prompting claims that climate change is in reverse or even ...
The ice sheet was hanging by a thread, and a slight shift in the temperature of global water levels could cause catastrophic damage to people.
The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...
Sea ice in the Antarctic Ocean had been growing for decades, but now, a sudden trend downward could spell serious trouble.
The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive ...
Containing around 750,000 cubic miles of ice – enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly 3 billion times – the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a rich reservoir of precious frozen freshwater.
A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...
New research into some of Earth’s largest ice sheets has revealed a startling new Antarctic tipping point, and researchers say that it has the potential to be disastrous.
Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the "Million Year Ice Core" project.
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
Researchers from the University of Leeds contributed to a House of Commons committee report about the Antarctic environment, ...