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Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...
New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...
Scientists have made an astonishing discovery after finding lobster-like creatures beneath the depths of the Antarctic ice.It ...
New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.
For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...
In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...
Most ice shelves in East Antarctica, however, increased in volume or stayed the same. The east, Davison said, is not as exposed to the warm water like the other side of the continent.
For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...
Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.
More than 40% of Antarctica’s ice shelves have shrunk over the past 25 years, a study published Thursday found, as scientists warn they’re losing volume with no sign of recovery because of the ...
Item 1 of 2 An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image.