The shape of the seafloor below ice shelves in West Antarctica influences how quickly warm seawater will be able to melt ice shelves. Ice shelves play a critical role in stabilizing the West Antarctic ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

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 ...

This ”shows us that Antarctic marine life ... retrieve a sediment core from under the ice shelf, so it came as a bit of a surprise when we hit the boulder and saw from the video footage that ...

Smaller calving events, not large icebergs, drive Antarctic ice sheet loss. Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate ...

A major ice shelf in Antarctica appears to have survived a period of hot temperatures more than 120,000 years ago, indicating that the West Antarctic ice sheet may not be vulnerable to complete ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...

ICE began a push to arrest and deport illegal immigrants on Monday at the president's direction. The 25 ICE field offices each have goals of 75 arrests per day, reports say. Arrests appear to be ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that ... investigator in the field and joint professor at ...

Joseph Valentour, from Centerville, Ohio, and his son, Duke, from Boulder, have been with ... 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic I write about scams as part of ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

Researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth's most remote and fragile continent. Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's ...