Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

As rising temperatures melt Antarctica’s ice sheet and cause more precipitation, the Southern Ocean’s upper layer is growing ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

Antarctic ice sheet background About 90% of the ice on Earth is located in Antarctica; if all this ice were to melt, the global sea level would rise by more than 50 meters. In addition, the ice ...