The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

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

Research Reveals ‘Warm Water’ Flowing Toward One of Antarctica’s Biggest Ice Shelves Could Dramatically Raise Sea Levels ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

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 ...

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December, and now, photos captured by ...

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

A team from the Polar Engineering Research Group at UCT has set off on their first field expedition to Antarctica.

The trillion-ton slab of ice that scientists call a "megaburg" broke off from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986.

In January 2023, a massive piece of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of two New York Cities — broke free. The Brunt Ice Shelf lies across the Weddell Sea from the site of ...