Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and unaffected by some of the more dramatic ...

These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater peppered across the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. This melting comes despite ...

It's part of a broader research campaign to better understand changes to the nearby Denman Glacier — the fastest-melting glacier in East Antarctica. The deep field campsite at Bunger Hills ...

The Conger Shelf, a 460-square-kilometers mass of ice has disintegrated in East Antarctica, it was reported over the weekend. It was the first to break up in four decades of satellite observations.

Tamura took part in the first full-scale research project in the area around the Totten Glacier in East Antarctica, where an ice-sheet melting mechanism similar to the Shirase Glacier appears to ...