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

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) 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 ...

The melting of Antarctic ice sheets is linked to more intense and frequent volcanic eruptions, as found by recent research. Reduced ice mass alleviates pressure on magma chambers beneath the ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar ...

the areas that aren’t shielded by ice are vulnerable to biological invaders that could seriously threaten the environment: Warming temperatures, combined with Antarctic tourism, increases the ...

Antarctic scientists have extracted what is believed to be the world's oldest ice. The international team successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the ...

Some of those volcanoes peak above the surface, but others sit several kilometers beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Climate change is causing the ice sheet to melt, raising global sea levels.

This study highlights the role of these events in chipping away at Antarctic ice in a "death by a thousand cuts," the authors write. Though extreme calving events make dramatic headlines ...

By the end of 2024, Antarctic sea ice extent had recovered to 7.3 million square kilometres (2.8 million square miles) -- very close to the 1981 to 2010 average, NSIDC said.

Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period of record lows, US scientists said, giving pause to speculation that Earth's frozen continent could be undergoing a permanent change.