"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Researchers have pondered whether an eruption of under-ice volcanoes could help to loosen the ice sheet of West Antarctica, causing significant chunks of the continent’s thick interior ice to ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

Tours to the interior of Antarctica, a growing segment, increased by 19% this last season, which is by 70 people. The number of adventurous tourists visiting Antarctica dipped in the 2014-15 ...

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. On January 1, these images revealed the ...