Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a scenario for a science fiction movie, but the ...

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

As the name Bedmap3 implies, this is the third map of Antarctica produced ... the lake is controlled by the ice sheet thickness, and the cycle of freezing and melting at the base of the ice ...

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

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

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 ...