Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

"The severity of the sea ice decline is a substantial concern." Scientists make puzzling find while examining recent ...

Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...

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

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

This is not the first time an iceberg has posed a threat to South Georgia. In 2004, iceberg A38 "grounded on its continental ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

The site showed a greater warming than is seen for the same period in other parts of Antarctica ... caused by circulation changes due to ice-sheet loss. If a suitable site exists, it should ...

Research, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, suggests that mass unloading due to melting of Antarctic ice sheets ... investigated rate of ice loss being 3m/yr.

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA ... trapped by a thick insulating blanket of ice – if the ice is too thick, we can lose the lowest and oldest layers of ice to melting.