Melting Antarctic ice isn’t doing what scientists thought it would. A groundbreaking new study reveals that when the West ...

Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important implications for people around the world. Spatial patterns of sea level change from ...

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans would be unrecognizable within hours. The scenario is wildly unrealistic, but ...

Researchers warn Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes that could trigger global consequences. Melting ice, collapsing ice shelves, and disrupted ocean circulation threaten sea levels, ecosystems, ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica. For two and a half years, an Argo ...