Forest fires in the Amazon may be contributing to the acceleration of Antarctic ice melt, according to new research published ...

An overall warming trend has been observed in the Antarctic continent by scientists over a long term with the speed 0.12 C ...

Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Icebergs as large as cities, potentially tens of kilometres wide, once roved the coasts of the UK, according to scientists.

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

This is no longer the case. Antarctic sea ice is now melting at an alarming rate. This is a problem because its sea ice holds in place coastal ice shelves, which themselves ring its glaciers and ice ...

Melting Point, which is the creation of chef-turned-ice-cream-maker Johno Storey, boasts wild flavours including goat’s cheese and ginger, malted milk, and lapsang souchong. Melting Point is the ...

Antarctica is losing about 136 billion tonnes of ice per year, with Greenland almost double that, at 267 billion tonnes, says NASA. These two ice sheets hold two thirds of the freshwater on Earth, and ...

Despite the widespread summer melt around much of ... role around the margins of Antarctica, from providing habitat for animals to damping waves that can chip away at the floating fronts of adjacent ...