The Ross Ice Shelf appears to be melting in previously unknown ways. This is an Inside Science story. Most of the worry over melting ice in Antarctica has focused on the rapidly melting western ...

A new scientific atlas has just redrawn the map of Antarctica’s seafloor—and what it reveals could alter how researchers ...

Despite the setback, the data collected during Ran’s 2022 mission remain invaluable. The findings have illuminated the intricate dynamics of ice shelf melting, driven by subsurface currents.

Many of these deep valleys had gone undetected because of the difficulty of collecting sonar data beneath floating ice ...

The ice shelves that surround Antarctica are exposed to the warmth of the ocean across the expanse of their undersides that float out over the continent's shelf seas, and the ocean-driven melting ...

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This is because the Ross Ice Shelf and other ice shelf formations act as a barrier, holding back the ice streams on the Antarctic mainland and preventing them from melting as they flow into the sea.

A recent study unveils a vast network of 332 submarine canyons beneath Antarctica's ocean floor, far exceeding previous ...

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday.

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday.

If melted completely, says NASA, the loss of the continent’s ice shelf would raise global sea levels by an estimated 200 feet (60 meters).