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 ...

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

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey have used ice core records to draw new conclusions ...

As the ice melts, the pressure in the magma chambers eases and the compressed magma can expand, leading to eruptions.

Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

The gushing spout of warm water could rapidly melt the Antarctic ice shelf and lead to rising sea levels sooner than we think ...

indicating that the West Antarctic ice sheet may not be vulnerable to complete collapse caused by climate change – a worst-case situation that could raise sea levels by metres. But large uncerta ...

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

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