On a January morning in 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke free from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It ...

This is the first research in which experts incorporated the factor of 'subglacial plumbing' to analyse retreating Antarctica's glaciers.

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

The deep seafloor showed a flourishing ecosystem, and the team believes they may have discovered several new species during their research.

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

Ice shelves form where a glacier or ice sheet flows ... protective sea ice can accelerate calving and lead to collapse, the agency warns. Antarctica is roughly shaped like a disk, except where ...

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg, A23a, has come to a halt near South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

has identified "atmospheric rivers" as a key factor in record-breaking temperatures and rapid glacier melting in Antarctica. Scientists from different institutions studied the effects of ...

There, they lose large volumes of ice via melting and calving of icebergs ... large amounts of stone fragments that glaciers had broken off the Antarctic continent. When the iceberg melts ...