Uncovering the collapse of the British and Irish ice sheet could help predict what's in store for Antarctica. View on ...

Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian drilling team is hoping to go even further back in time ...

Scientists at Little Dome C recovered the oldest continuous ice core, unlocking 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history.

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea levels 2 metres higher by 2300 than currently predicted.

In early January, the start of summer in Antarctica ... Members of the U.S.–led Whillans Ice Stream Sub­glacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project targeted a lake at the southeastern ...

For years, Antarctica’s ice loss contributed significantly to sea level rise. Between 2002 and 2010, the continent’s ice sheet lost an average of 73.79 gigatonnes per year, a rate that almost ...

They are visible in seismic survey data that was used to locate sites for drilling platforms ... that monster blocks of ice were also roaming across the North Sea. In Antarctica, tabular bergs ...

These included extensive surveying and mapping, such as seismic and radar studies, glaciology, ice core drilling, atmospheric research, and oceanography. Antarctica was shown to be a single ...

But vast regions - especially in East Antarctica - remain unexplored. Little is known about the connections between these lakes. Hot water drilling at Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica.