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Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.
An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to researchers.
Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...
A new study reveals there was a time when massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were drifting less than 90 miles off the U.K. coastline.
From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...
As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...
An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a thriving ecosystem beneath it, according to researchers. On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from ...
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.
Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...
In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that during the last ice age—about 18,000 to 20,000 years ...