NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.
Would 'fundamentally change the landscape' (CNN) -- A rift in an Antarctic ice shelf will soon create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, according to scientists. In the last six days, the rift ...
Now, far from the icy seas of Antarctica, what’s left of A23a is being eaten away by warmer waters. It’s in its death throes, ...
Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...
Disintegration of the world's oldest iceberg has implications for global sea levels and marine ecosystems.
The massive Antarctic iceberg A23a, once twice the size of London, is rapidly breaking apart in the South Atlantic after ...
Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research.
A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.
Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.
An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...
Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean. The vast expanse is ...