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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate ...

The vehicle’s mission yielded key findings on glacial melt and deep currents before it disappeared under mysterious ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...

It's been a year since the underwater vehicle Ran vanished beneath a glacier in Antarctica. Owned by the University of Gothenburg, it is one of only three of ...

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 ...

Recently, ocean robots, including autonomous underwater vehicles and tethered ... in our understanding of the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to global sea level rise.