The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and snow, is facing a hidden danger: ocean currents. Its massive ice ...
New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study sheds new light on the ...
Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
A recent study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf has revealed a fascinating discovery: the entire ice sheet moves forward once ...
Antarctica's biggest ice shelf is on the move and could trigger icequakes, a new study warns. Researchers found that the Ross Ice Shelf – a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles ...
In Antarctica, heavy glaciers are always on the move. Conveyor belts of ice, known as ice streams, are the corridors of faster flow that carry most of the vast glaciers' ice and sediment debris ...
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.
The potential acceleration and eventual disintegration of the Ross Ice Shelf, leading to its movement into the sea, would ...
Ice shelves in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have been thinning for hundreds of years, leaving them vulnerable to collapse in the face of climate change, according to research released Thursday. The ...
As snow falls on Antarctica, layers build up and turn to ice. Over time, this compressed snow has become a continent-sized glacier, or ice sheet. It's enormous—almost double the size of ...