A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

A giant chunk has broken off the largest iceberg in the world, which may be the first sign of its deterioration. The behemoth ...

The Antarctic summer runs from November through ... from the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, near the Ronne Ice Shelf. Mt. Vinson and five other nearby mountains, collectively called ...

Cryospheric science is the interdisciplinary study of permafrost, snow and ice, primarily on the surface of the Earth, but also on other planets and moons. The cryosphere is an integral part of ...

parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the bordering Ronne Ice Shelf suggests that, contrary to some model reconstructions, the ice shelf ...

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

An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice sheet and ...

An ancient bird that swam in Antarctica’s balmier waters 69 million years ago may be the earliest known waterfowl on Earth, scientists say. Birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the end ...

Create a table- top map of Antarctica using junk materials. Include a South Pole, some mountains and ice shelves. Provide small play figures for imaginative play. Or create a ‘shoebox ...

Byrd and Finn Ronne The third plaque recalls the 1837 visit of the area by the French Antarctic explorer Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D’Urville, the French naval officer who explored the south ...

Abstract: This study demonstrates the utility of the Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) method for remote sensing of ice shelf surface deformation ... angle GNSS-R data ...