A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...

Like all glaciers, Thwaites is made of solid ice, but as gravity pulls it toward sea level, it moves like a thick, heavy ...

Antarctica is breaking apart in two very different directions. While West Antarctica hemorrhages ice into warming seas at an ...

Some call it the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a vast expanse of Antarctic ice roughly the size of Florida. As temperatures rise, the ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies ...

Ultimately, researchers determined that prior climate models omitted key features and underestimated the extent to which warm ...

Glacial earthquakes are rocking the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

The Ross Ice Shelf appears to be melting in previously unknown ways. This is an Inside Science story. Most of the worry over melting ice in Antarctica has focused on the rapidly melting western shore, ...