Whenever large icebergs detach from Antarctica, the international community are understandably alarmed. Not only is this ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

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 ...

As climate change accelerates the melting of Antarctica’s ice sheets, calving events like this one are expected to become more frequent. Montelli said the researchers plan to return to the site ...

Their mission is to produce the most comprehensive look at what’s happening to the world’s vulnerable ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. Outside experts praised the work as authoritative.

This shift could cause the planet to rotate like an unbalanced top, wreaking potential climate chaos ... sea ice and ...

The melting of ice sheets in Antarctica is a wake-up call for the world to tackle the worsening climate crisis. If global warming continued, the melting ice could lead to a steep rise in sea ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating ... that had been covered by almost 500 feet of ice for centuries. Less than two weeks later, they were ...

They charted sizable areas of the frozen wilderness, took systematic meteorological observations, made significant contributions to the understanding of glaciers and ice sheets, revealed the ...