ANTARCTICA -- An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according to the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists first discovered significant ...

An iceberg larger than New York City has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said in a press release Friday that its scientists first detected vast cracks in the ...

BERLIN - Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice - an area larger than Rhode Island - ...

Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a potential way to predict these dramatic events in the future. It is not ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

A critical Antarctic glacier is looking more vulnerable as satellite images show the ice shelf that blocks it from collapsing into the sea is breaking up much faster than before and spawning huge ...

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before. A study Friday shows the ice shelf has shrunk by one-fifth ...

The trek is expected to take O’Brady about 110 days, with him venturing across the Ross Ice Shelf—a roughly 1,780-mile journey.