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

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

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 reveals there was a time when massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were drifting less than ...

The underbelly of massive "tabular" icebergs that dragged across the North Sea seabed between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that during the last ice age—about 18,000 to 20,000 years ...

Beneath the great, white expanse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, a mysterious realm of streams and lakes lies out of sight. Much about this hidden water world remains poorly understood. But a new ...

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 ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.