An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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

Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Coonin and colleagues, the removal of this pressure could cause ... During the last ice age, Antarctica’s ice sheets were significantly thicker than they are today, and similar processes may ...

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

An international team of scientists, including a researcher from the University of Manitoba, has drilled what’s believed to ...

when an iceberg roughly the size of Delaware broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. A once in a century eventcould produce an iceberg about 45,000 square kilometers, slightly larger than the entire co ...

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the ...

Here’s how it works. The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough ...

‘Under these conditions, we find that the removal of an ice sheet above a volcano results in more abundant and larger eruptions.’ Of the at least 138 volcanoes in Antarctica, the majority are ...