The huge, icy continent of Antarctica has long been a fascination for many. There are many reasons for this. Firstly, it’s a ...

Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

The ice shelves surrounding Antarctica protect the continent's ice sheets and glaciers. If they collapse, a pathway for ice streams from surrounding glaciers to spill water into the ocean would ...

The study's findings, published in Nature online, confirm that atmospheric CO2 declined during the Eocene - Oligocene climate transition and that the Antarctic ice sheet began to form when CO2 in ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new large-scale study of crevasses on the world's second largest body of ice.

Formed by stresses at the surface, their direction and size tell us how the ice sheet is flowing towards ... that occur across Greenland and Antarctica. However, these processes are very poorly ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is a vast reserve of frozen water, with the potential to raise sea levels by a whopping seven metres (23 feet). Now, scientists have warned that the ice sheet - the world's ...

Crevasses at Store Glacier, a marine-terminating outlet glacier of the western Greenland Ice Sheet. Credit: Tom Chudley (Durham University) The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open at an accelerating ...