When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Ice Sheet Records Surprising Mass Gain Between 2021 and 2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass at an average rate of ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Ultimately, researchers determined that prior climate models omitted key features and underestimated the extent to which warm ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) -Rapid loss of Antarctic sea ice could be a tipping point for the global climate, causing sea level rises, changes to ocean currents and loss of marine life that are impossible to ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

Researchers from the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and the British Antarctic Survey conducted a groundbreaking study under the Dotson Ice Shelf, utilizing an autonomous underwater vehicle.

New research has for the first time tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-ups to three large-scale iceberg ‘calving’ events in Antarctica, ...

Penguins walking across sea ice by a large iceberg in front of Thwaites Ice Shelf, a large, unstable mass of ice that extends from the West Antarctic ice sheet into the sea. Most of the Earth’s fresh ...

The forecasts they are a-changin’. In 2007, the official view was that there would be no net ice loss from Antarctica over the next century. By 2012, it was clear that Antarctic was already losing ice ...