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

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

“The area of Antarctic ice reached an all-time low ... the report explained that it was the second time scientists had observed ice shrinking below 2 million square kilometers.

The rapidly shrinking sea ice pack in Antarctic waters will likely recover if prompt action is taken to contain greenhouse ...

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

They're also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves ... and the fate of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, occur on the scale of millimeters. They happen in a thin layer of ocean, just beneath ...

To do so, they used a thermomechanical magma chamber model and simulated a shrinking West Antarctic Ice Sheet through inputting specific pressure decreases exerted on the underlying rocks and ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 billion tons per year. And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of ...

A major ice shelf in Antarctica appears to have survived a period of hot temperatures more than 120,000 years ago, indicating that the West Antarctic ice sheet may not be as vulnerable as we ...

Iceberg A23a is massive, slightly smaller than Long Island. It is drifting slowly towards South Georgia Island and if it ...

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...