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

A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...

Hidden hundreds of meters beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in complete darkness, researchers made a surprising discovery: ...

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

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that ...

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 ...

For years, scientists have warned that melting Antarctic ice could push sea levels dangerously higher by the end of this ...

As global ice dams begin to weaken due to warming temperatures, a new study suggests that prior attempts to evaluate the mass of the huge floating ice shelves that line the Antarctic ice sheet may ...

An Antarctic glacier just collapsed at record speed, stunning scientists and raising fears about the future of Earth’s ice.

A study has suggested that Antarctica's ice shelves are thinning sooner than earlier models indicated, a warning sign that sea-level rise could start speeding up sooner than predictions indicated. The ...

This summer, the vast Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica had so much meltwater running down its face, it looked like it was weeping. Dr Yixi Zheng, a climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, ...