Containing around 750,000 cubic miles of ice – enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly 3 billion times – the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a rich reservoir of precious frozen freshwater.

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

Antarctica gained ice between 2021 and 2023, driven by heavy snowfall. But scientists say the growth is temporary and does ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, near the southern tip of South America, is considered by scientists to be one of the most important potential contributors to sea level rise because of climate change.

The West Antarctic ice sheet is only one of the continent's ice sheets: If all of the Antarctic ice sheets melted – which is not predicted – global sea level would rise about 200 feet.

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting rapidly, raising concerns it could cross a tipping point of irreversible retreat in the next few decades if global temperatures rise 1.5 to 2.0 degrees ...

Using the UK's national supercomputer, researchers developed four future melting projections. In the best-case projection, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melts three times faster in the 21st century ...

The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive chemical analysis, the researchers discovered just how extreme and outlier the ...

West Antarctica's collapse alone could cause sea levels to rise by more than a meter, or 3.4 feet, by 2100, according to a March study in Nature. Other studies project sea level rise of around 10 ...

Containing around 750,000 cubic miles of ice – enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly 3 billion times – the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a rich reservoir of precious frozen freshwater.