Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to ...

When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.

A strange object resembling a massive ship has been spotted on Google Earth in Antarctica, sending conspiracy theories into ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

New timelapse satellite imagery showed the former largest iceberg on Earth steadily breaking apart from September to November ...

A23a is drifting in waters where the temperature is well above freezing, and is ‘rapidly breaking up’ into several ‘very large chunks’.

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around endless icebergs, frozen cliffs and mercurial glaciers. In Antarctica, the ...

The calving was so drastic that it caused measurable earthquakes in the region. An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research ...

The recent rapid retreat of an Antarctic glacier could be unprecedented, a new study suggests, a finding which could have major implications for future sea-level rise. The researchers found that ...