Observations suggest a major melting event at the Ross Ice Shelf was connected to atmospheric turbulence. The Ross Ice Shelf ...

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The eerie structures imaged by Ran are the result of melting that's undercutting the Dotson shelf, creating an unstable ...

Over the past three decades, Antarctica’s ice sheet has lost its grip on roughly 12,820 square kilometers of seafloor, an ...

Scientists escaping an Antarctic storm discovered a previously uncharted island in the Weddell Sea that appeared on no ...

What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

By analyzing peat cores, researchers have shown how populations of nesting seabirds have fluctuated on a sub-Antarctic island ...

Scientists have identified the exact temperature at which parts of Antarctica stop retreating and start collapsing, and the ...

In the United States, a 2-foot increase in sea levels wouldn’t affect as many people as in parts of Asia, but the price of ...

Photographs of the planet have made it familiar. Nevertheless, there are locations on Earth where no human foot has set foot, ...

Rising sea levels threaten coastal communities with increased flooding and erosion. This article examines the impacts and solutions to protect vulnerable areas.

Researchers studied more than 100 species of anglerfish to learn more about the secrets of their legendary lures.