The increased crevassing, especially prominent in fast-flowing portions of the ice sheet, could lead to a feedback loop that accelerates ice loss from the glacier, which ultimately raises sea levels.
The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...
A high-tech submersible has mysteriously vanished beneath Antarctica’s most dangerous glacier, leaving scientists baffled and ...
The gushing spout of warm water could rapidly melt the Antarctic ice shelf and lead to rising sea levels sooner than we think.
The world's largest iceberg is moving towards a remote British penguin sanctuary north of Antarctica. Read more.
The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...
Surface melting for the Antarctic ice sheet appears to have set a record for the 46-year satellite observation period on January 2, 2025. All areas of the Antarctic coast that generally see ...
An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey have used ice core records to draw new conclusions ...
A team from the Polar Engineering Research Group at UCT has set off on their first field expedition to Antarctica.
While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...
The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...