Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...
A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...
Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...
When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...
A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...
As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...
In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...
In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...
Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...
A new review has revealed that the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), the Southern Hemisphere's most influential climate driver, is ...
Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...