SYDNEY, July 1 (Xinhua) -- An Australian study has found that the rapid loss of Antarctic sea ice is directly triggering the collapse of the continent's ice shelves, establishing a clear link between ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...

As sea ice vanishes, Antarctica's coastline loses its protective barrier, leading to increased wave damage, faster ice-shelf weakening, and more iceberg calving, with six extra icebergs per 100,000 ...

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low ...

These northern Greenland ice shelves, as they are called, have lost 35 percent of their overall volume since 1978, the research published in Nature Communications found.

A smaller ice shelf, Larsen B, completely splintered in a little over a month in 2002, a process that started with a similar crack. Another ice shelf, Larsen A, had disintegrated a few years before.

The Pine Island Ice Shelf, about 1,300 feet thick over most of its area, is a dramatic case: It thinned by an average of 150 feet from 1994 to 2012.

What Is Happening to Ice Shelves? Ice shelves have always melted, but in an era of warming polar environments, it’s now happening at a faster rate.Most melting happens where the ice meets the ocean ...

On Jan. 1, NASA satellite technology captured surreal images of blue meltwater ponds along the Amery Ice Shelf, the third largest in Antarctica.These pools, which normally develop from Nov. 1 ...