Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

The 1912 vessel, built in Norway and initially christened Polaris, is represented in Lego form by 3,011 pieces and a building ...

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

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 ...

Scientists know that the loss of Antarctic sea ice can diminish penguin numbers, cause ice shelves to melt in warmer waters and impede the Southern Ocean from absorbing carbon dioxide. But this ...

Scientists know that the loss of Antarctic sea ice can diminish penguin numbers, cause ice shelves to melt in warmer waters, and impede the Southern Ocean from absorbing carbon dioxide. But this new ...

The ship has been “parked” in Antarctic ice and, on a breathlessly still, sunny morning, under an intense blue sky, we simply walk down a gangway and onto it ... except “top shelf”. Guests are invited ...

A new study shows that the ongoing decline in Antarctic ... at the Antarctic shelf where the densest and deepest waters of the global ocean are formed. "However, this cooling and subsequent sinking of ...

A23a was part of Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf. It calved from the shelf in 1986 and grounded in shallow water in the Weddell Sea shortly thereafter. Finally breaking free from the ocean floor ...

The latest measurement of Antarctic sea ice shocked scientists ... the range of observed variability that some scientists speculate that the Southern Ocean sea ice may have entered a wholly new state, ...