Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

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

The frozen edges of Antarctica are less stable than they appear. Beneath the wide, seemingly immovable shelves of ice, the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

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 ...

CANBERRA — 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 reverse, a ...