“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in a high-resolution record where up to 13,000 years are compressed into one ...

They drilled all the way to the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. "The relevance of this project ... Robert Mulvaney, a glaciologist and palaeoclimatologist at British Antarctic Survey who took ...

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The Amery ... crucial role in stabilizing the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The pale blue meltwater ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice that scientists call a "megaburg" broke off from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Scientists catalogued it under the name A23a. It was stuck at sea for decades ...

British scientists are hoping ... nurseries lose their protective sea ice, causing populations to shrink and shift south. As a cornerstone to the Antarctic food web above the sea floor, scientists ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica ... Researchers at EPICA, including scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, had their work cut out for them. It took about 20 days just ...