For the first time, scientists have directly observed the melting underside of an Antarctic ice shelf, Earth.com reported. An ...

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

By Shanna Hanbury The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the ...

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to researchers.

Multiple hydro-fractures have been implicated in the collapse of smaller ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula, where plentiful melt-water forms on the surface during summer. It is rare to see ...

But if the current begins to weaken, it would allow warmer water to seep in closer to the ice shelves, speeding up the melting of Antarctic ice. “Faster ice melting could then lead to further ...

MORE: It may be too late to prevent significant melting on West Antarctic ice shelf that includes 'Doomsday Glacier': Study The newly exposed seafloor allowed an international team of scientists ...

Little is known about the seafloor beneath the floating ice shelves in Antarctica ... should it continue to melt. "The ice loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a major contributor to sea level ...