The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one ...

Life Cycle of a Glacier Follow a snowflake as it lands on a glacier and goes for a prolonged ride. If the Ice Melts See the world's coastlines if Antarctica's ice melted. Note: This feature ...

Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, ...

Antarctica gained about 695 billion metric tons of ice between July 2021 and April 2023, the largest 22-month mass increase ...

Antarctica gained a significant amount of ice between 2021 and 2023 as unusually heavy snowfall added more mass than glaciers were losing in some areas. Scientists say the increase was driven by ...

Over a century ago, Australian geologist Sir Douglas Mawson led a sledding expedition over hundreds of kilometers of ice into ...

Antarctica may feel very far away from everyday life. But when ice sitting on land moves into the ocean, it raises sea levels ...

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities ...