A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

In the autumn of 2021, an international team of researchers from New Zealand's Antarctic Science Platform set off toward the South Pole. Their destination was the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica ...

But a new study suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which until now has been extremely stable, might begin to slow down in the next 25 years, with potentially severe consequences for ...

On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf, a massive floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute.

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing and go ...

In a nutshell • The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Earth’s strongest ocean current, is projected to weaken by about 20% by ...

In a satellite image taken on January 9, 2022, East Antarctica’s Conger ice shelf floats fully intact (seen at the bottom of the image, stretching from the coast at left to an island at right ...

Ice shelves surround Antarctica and are floating extensions of the continent’s bedrock-grounded ice sheet, forming where the ice sheet flows down to the coast and extends over the ocean.

Amundsen Sea circulation controls bottom upwelling and Antarctic Pine Island and Thwaites ice shelf melting. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47084-z ...

Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels. A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed ...