An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

An advanced submarine vanished under an Antarctic glacier, revealing new mysteries about remote and challenging regions.

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

New research has showed that meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet has intensified stratification in the Southern Ocean, ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting of ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...

Amidst the rapid melting of the planet's ice coverage due to climate change, one continent has lost an amount of grounded ice equivalent to more than 17 times the size of the city of Toronto over thre ...

NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.