Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

Larsen C lies next to a smaller ice shelf that disintegrated in 2002 after developing a crack similar to the one ... northerly of the remaining major Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves.

UCT researchers explored Antarctica’s Fimbul Ice Shelf, collecting data to model future climate shifts and marking South ...

Taylor actually took samples from the iceberg as it journeyed northward from the Antarctic ice shelf. Researchers took a ship ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place.

A larger ice formation broke off in 1986 from the Antarctic Filchner Ice Shelf when it cracked into three smaller pieces, A23a being one of them. Experts have tracked it and found that for months ...

Newsweek reached out to British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the group that published the map, by email for comment. Antarctica sea ice has been disappearing over the last several years as global ...

On January 13, 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago, named A-84, broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet.

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

At its thickest point, the ice sheet in Antarctic is almost 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) thick. | Credit: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) The new research also reveals, in unprecedented detail ...