As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

the science is pretty clear that it's related to climate change causing the Antarctic to melt at a record pace. According to Meijers, ice shelves have lost around 6,000 billion tons of their mass ...

A23a, as the iceberg is officially known, was born in 1986 when it broke off from another iceberg, A23, that had torn away from Antarctica earlier that year. The separation of a smaller ice chunk ...

which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...

"We present the first monthly reconstruction for Antarctic sea-ice extent by sector and in total for the entire 20th century, to put the observed changes into historical context," she said.

Antarctica is a land of extremes. A continent where temperatures can plummet below -80°F (-62°C), where relentless winds sculpt ice into towering formations and where the only signs of life seem ...

The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published on Monday that warned of "severe" climate consequences.

Antarctic sea ice has again fallen to a near-record low as a new study shows the system is undergoing a significant "structural change". Scientists have been using satellite images over the past ...

Melting Antarctic ice is weakening the world’s strongest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, according to research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters on Monday.