A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...

On Feb. 21, at the peak of the region's summer, the Antarctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent of 1.79 million square kilometers, or 691,000 square miles -- the lowest sea ice extent on ...

Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have gained unique insight into the mechanisms behind the collapse of Antarctic ...

Image: Sentinel 2 satellite image, meltwater ponds on the Amery Ice Shelf. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel 2 data, processed by ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has seen a reverse shift in land mass after decades of melting. Getty Images. The researchers analyzed data from the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ...

The new images of the melting underside of an ice shelf could help scientists better forecast how the continent is contributing to rising sea levels.

In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the size of Tasmania. In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically ...