Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Warmer surface temperatures during summers can cause more ice on Antarctica ice shelves to melt into standing water ponds, then leak into cracks and increase the odds of collapse, according to a new ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

Scientists tracking Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier found its ice shelf weakening followed an ordered pattern, driven by hidden ...

The Antarctic seafloor is one of the last truly unseen places on Earth, and the machines we send into that darkness are ...

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models. Researchers led ...

Debangshu Banerjee, a recent graduate of the Centre for Earth Observation Sciences at the University of Manitoba, with Dr.

Two papers published in Nature Geoscience in June indicate that Antarctic ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously anticipated. The papers detail two distinct mechanisms for melting that ...

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March showed that the Ross Ice Shelf slips daily, reported Washington University in St. Louis, in a story posted by SciTechDaily. According to ...

British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of the ...

For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.” ...

The Ross Ice Shelf appears to be melting in previously unknown ways. This is an Inside Science story. Most of the worry over melting ice in Antarctica has focused on the rapidly melting western shore, ...