A “serendipitous” discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems can thrive beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice ...

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

Until now, no one had noticed that they are happening around Antarctica, probably all the time because of the thousands of calving glaciers there. Other places with glaciers are likely affected ...

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

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted ...

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 ...

An enormous body of ice in Antarctica has been formally ... satellites have observed huge iceberg calving events, changes in the flow of glaciers and rapidly thinning ice demonstrating the ...

Antarctica just lost another huge piece of ice. The ice broke off of Pine Island Glacier, which is the fastest melting glacier on the continent. Scientists first saw a large rift in the glacier ...

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 ...