A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Scientists Found a Massive Hole In Antarctica in 2016 And Now, They've Finally Discovered What Caused It During the winters ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

The ocean around Antarctica is changing in unexpected ways. Since 2015, sea ice surrounding the frozen continent has been ...

Holes in the ice, known as polynyas, may appear more as climate change advances. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- By analyzing data from seaborne robots and sensors glued onto ...

The hole in the sea ice offshore of the Antarctic coast was spotted by a NASA satellite on Sept. 25, 2017. (Image credit: NASA) "It may modify weather patterns around Antarctica," study leader ...

A huge, mysterious hole has been spotted in sea ice near Antarctica, researchers reported this week. The hole, which was detected about a month ago, is roughly 30,000 square miles or the size of ...

Sea ice and clouds blanket the Weddell Sea around Antarctica in this satellite image from September 25, 2017. The dark area marked by the star is the polynya. University of Bremen ...

"Suddenly a hole appears in the floating ice" The key ingredient is violent storms (something previous research had suggested). And during winter the ocean surrounding Antarctica, called the ...

This ice hole is now the deepest ever made with a hot-water drill in West Antarctica, the BBC reports. BEAMISH is currently working at the Rutford Ice Stream, a fast-flowing West Antarctic ice stream.

Enormous holes in the Antarctic winter ice pack have popped up sporadically since the 1970s, but the reason for their formation has been largely mysterious.