Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

A ‘lightning-fast’ melting event astonished the scientific community when researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES) observed the colla.

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

A colossal Antarctic iceberg that broke off in 1986 and weighed nearly a trillion tonnes is finally disintegrating in the South Atlantic. Scientists say it will vanish completely within weeks.

I saved the best for last. After 10 years of travel writing, I recently made landfall on Antarctica, my seventh and final ...

Now, far from the icy seas of Antarctica, what’s left of A23a is being eaten away by warmer waters. It’s in its death throes, ...

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

Strange structures found lurking beneath Antarctic ice ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it collapsing in record time. The rapid breakup was driven by a flat, underwater ...