"For us, it's not just a new discovery, but also a wake-up call." Scientists stunned by new images from beneath Antarctic ice: 'It's a bit like seeing the back of the moon' first appeared on The ...

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

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

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.

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

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

The 500-foot-thick (150 meters) Brunt Ice Shelf is a floating sheet of ice that moves at a rate of up to 1.2 miles (2 km) per year westward into the Weddell Sea.

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 ...

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

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.