The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and snow, is facing a hidden danger: ocean currents. Its massive ice ...
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...
Roughly the size of Spain, the Ross Ice Shelf stabilizes major glaciers along Antarctica’s coast — and is at risk of retreating, a new study finds.
As snow falls on Antarctica, layers build up and turn to ice. Over time, this compressed snow has become a continent-sized ...
Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting up to 40% faster than we thought, study warns Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting up to 40 per cent faster than we thought due to coastal ocean ...
The Getz Ice Shelf from 2016’s Operation Icebridge in Antarctica. According to a study published on Jan. 14, 2019, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Antarctica is melting more than ...
A recent study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf has revealed a fascinating discovery: the entire ice sheet moves forward once ...
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.
In Antarctica ... corridors of faster flow that carry most of the vast glaciers' ice and sediment debris out toward the ocean. One such ice stream jostles the entire Ross Ice Shelf out of place ...
The potential acceleration and eventual disintegration of the Ross Ice Shelf, leading to its movement into the sea, would ...