"Thwaites could easily trigger a runaway [West Antarctic] ice sheet collapse that would ultimately ... The more complex approach would be to build an actual wall underneath the glacier ...

A new study shows that we're skating on thin ice when it comes to Antarctica's ice sheets. Antarctica's glaciers are in ...

Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. A new study published in the journal Nature shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the ...

There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s. It is the southern hemisphere summer, when you'd ...

Icefin has reached the point at which the warm ocean water meets the wall of ice at the front of ... right in the centre of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - a vast basin of ice that contains more ...

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to Antarctica, years after he lived ... onboard the RRS Ernest Shackleton. Once on the ice shelf, Peter is delighted to finally arrive at ...

In a display of nature's palette, NASA has released satellite imagery capturing colorful icebergs near the Amery Ice Shelf in east Antarctica. The vibrant blues, greens and even yellowish tones in ...

A door-like ice formation near Showa Station in Antarctica. Credit: Google Maps Humans have a beautifully innate sense of ...

Scientists say they now have a better idea of exactly where and when the margin of Antarctica started melting. They've traced the changing shapes of bumps on the ice surface that mark locations ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog ...

On a map of the Adélie Coast pinned to my wall, I chose dive ... t say how it penetrates the ice—or survives there. Edwardsiella Andrillae The waters under Antarctic ice are like Mount Everest ...