At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the ...
Scientists have just uncovered a troubling cycle that’s accelerating the Antarctica ice melting even faster than we thought, ...
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ...
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...
"We found that the whole shelf suddenly moves about 6 to 8 centimeters [2.4 to 3.1 inches] once or twice a day, triggered by a slip on an ice stream that flows into the ice shelf," says geophysicist ...
A University of Alabama associate professor of geological sciences is part of a seven-year project dedicated to researching a ...
The latest generation, called Deep Argo floats, dive thousands of metres below the surface, collecting a trove of fresh information about temperature, salinity, oxygen and nutrients. “A decade ago, we ...
Ceccolini is co-chief executive of British start-up Real Ice, which aims to thicken Arctic ice shelves and strengthen them ...
Antarctica's massive ice shelves, those vast floating platforms of ice, are destabilizing at an alarming rate due to ocean ...
Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves.
Eight years after the first female scientist came forward to report sexual harassment and assault while working in Antarctica, women are still being victimised in the region. Abuse is rife in "the ...
Eight years after the first female scientist came forward to report sexual harassment and assault while working in Antarctica, women are still being victimised in the region. Abuse is rife in "the ...