A fresh set of numbers is changing what scientists thought happens when a city‑sized slab of ice dissolves into the sea. The ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

They are animals adapted to snow.” Scientists have observed a reduction in Antarctica’s sea ice due to rising temperatures. Image courtesy of ICCE/Anderson Astor and Marcelo Curia.

From 2021 to 2023, ice mass in East Antarctica particularly showed signs of recovery. However, scientists still say it may not signal a long-term trend.

Updated at 3:15 p.m. ET on February 28, 2025 Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one ...

Lake Enigma sits between two glaciers, Amorphous and Boulder Clay, in Antarctica’s Northern Foothills. Given the area’s average temperature of 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit (-14 degrees Celsius) and ...

Norway's photogenic "Dragon's Eye" likely formed around 20,000 years ago, when all of Scandinavia sat beneath an enormous mass of ice called the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet.

After decades of watching Arctic sea ice extent drop as climate warms, scientists have yet to see Antarctic sea ice set a definitive trend. “Antarctic sea ice has always been a puzzle,” said Sharon ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way not taken into account by current models of future sea level rise, according to a new study.

Abhi Doddi (PhDAeroEngr’21) is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica. Doddi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ...

The Antarctic summer of 2019–2020 was the largest melt season on record for the George VI ice shelf. But no one could get there to study ice shelf processes because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers now have evidence that Antarctic ice shelves are fracturing under the weight of the meltwater lakes that sit on top of them — a measure they say may have implications for climate change.