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

Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...

shows a map of Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, with color coding that purportedly shows ice gain and loss between Dec. 21, 2016, and Dec. 21, 2024. "I love data," the caption reads.

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

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

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

This is not the first time an iceberg has posed a threat to South Georgia. In 2004, iceberg A38 "grounded on its continental ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

Research, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, suggests that mass unloading due to melting of Antarctic ice sheets ... investigated rate of ice loss being 3m/yr.

The campaign took place over the most recent Antarctic summer between mid ... a thick insulating blanket of ice. If the ice is too thick, we can lose the lowest and oldest layers of ice to melting ...

The site showed a greater warming than is seen for the same period in other parts of Antarctica ... caused by circulation changes due to ice-sheet loss. If a suitable site exists, it should ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA ... trapped by a thick insulating blanket of ice – if the ice is too thick, we can lose the lowest and oldest layers of ice to melting.