Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater ...

Calving, when chunks of ice break off from ice shelves to form icebergs, is common and increasingly influenced by climate change. For extremely large icebergs, this process is typically slow, often ...

Ice landings are among the rarest things you can experience in Antarctica.Credit: Adrian Wlodarczyk The Australian-owned expedition company, which achieved B Corp status last year (a hard-won ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is drifting northward from Antarctica, potentially threatening South Georgia, a British ...

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December ... appearing along one of the region’s largest ice shelves, indicating that global warming is ...

By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...