The alarm bells are ringing as experts closely monitor the precarious state of Thwaites Glacier, dubbed the 'Doomsday Glacier' in West Antarctica. With its eastern ice shelf nearing a critical break, ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much ...

Learn how engineers design Antarctic stations for moving ice, heavy snow, high winds, limited logistics, and long-term ...

Warm ocean water is reaching the underside of Antarctic ice shelves through narrow grooves that scientists have only recently begun to map in detail, and the melt rates inside those grooves are ...

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

This NASA picture shows part of the Thwaites glacier, in Antarctica, which is the size of Britain (AFP Photo/HANDOUT) A huge project to build an undersea 'wall' in Antarctica could offer a last-ditch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive chunk of sea ice in West Antarctica has not refrozen following a winter heatwave in the region – a dramatic change that ...

Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than ...