Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away. “Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to ...

"If we [humans] continue to do business as usual, it's a distinct possibility that we reach the climate tipping point sooner than later." ...

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 ...

The usual picture of Antarctic ice loss is simple enough: a warmer atmosphere melts more ice, and the oceans rise. This new ...

"It looks like a windscreen that's shattering." ...

Antarctica's Thwaites glacier, widely known as the "doomsday glacier," stands on the brink of a significant transformation as ...

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models. Researchers led ...

It is relatively common for ice shelves in Antarctica to spawn icebergs. It is less common for an ice shelf to completely disintegrate. In March 2022, an ice shelf in East Antarctica did both. The ...

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica’s largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest ice shelf in Antarctica is slipping — a first-of-its-kind discovery related to our warming world. The shelf can move ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than ...