A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before. A study Friday shows the ice shelf has shrunk by one-fifth ...

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

“Glaciers don’t usually retreat this fast,” said Adrian Luckman, professor of geography at Swansea University, remarking in amazement at the extraordinary disintegration of Antarctica’s Hektoria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vital Antarctic glacier holding back major sea level rises is 'speeding up fast’. The Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica’s single ...

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

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...