On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...

The sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound has held secrets beneath its surface for decades. Now, scientists have unlocked some of those mysteries by studying how this fast ice—frozen sea water ...

The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For decades, scientists have attempted to chart this buried landscape ...

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

Recent record summer lows in Antarctic sea ice provide a window into a future warmer climate with more extreme events — but ...

Heat from Earth’s interior (“geothermal heating”) causes melting at the base of the ice sheet, which is insulated from frigid polar temperatures by the thickness of the ice. Where the ice gets thinner ...

The claim: NASA Antarctic ice sheet study shows global warming is a 'con' A Jan. 31 Facebook post features a link to a 2015 NASA press release announcing research that concluded the Antarctic ice ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

West Antarctica, home to one of Earth's largest ice sheets, sits atop a volcanic hotspot known as the West Antarctic Rift. This region contains over 100 volcanic centers—many hidden beneath ice ...

Satellite observations and geophysical surveys of the flow and form of Antarctica's giant ice sheet point to a continent being changed irreversibly by fossil-fuel burning ... Frémand, A.C., et al.