Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

a body of water on the Antarctic coast directly south of New Zealand. "In 2022, we had a winter growth season [the period in which ice cover is usually expanding] that no one had ever seen ...

In a jaw-dropping feat, European scientists have pulled off something incredible: they’ve managed to extract ice that’s more ...

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

If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably comes to mind. Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene ...

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December, and now, photos captured by ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post 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 extent was larger in 2024 ...

Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change.Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the Delaware-sized (5,800 square kilometers, or 2,239 square miles) A-68 ...

No one ever expected much to happen in Antarctica ... Heat comes from near the core of the earth and warms the bottom part of Antarctic ice shelves. This geothermal warmth could greatly contribute to ...

“There's no other paleoclimate proxy on Earth that ... we can say about what's going to happen in the future.” The Antarctic ice gathered on this expedition is special not only because it ...