However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

Those long decades of work have gradually given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent ... on rising sea levels. "Some ridges will hold up the flowing ice," Pritchard said ...

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

By 30 November, Antarctic sea ice was the third lowest on record, tracking higher than the 2023 and 2016 levels for the same date, the NSIDC says. Map showing the main regions of the Antarctic. Credit ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

Policymakers are basing their decisions on current projections of sea level rise, she says, “but what if we largely underestimated it?” While the Antarctic Ice Sheet may be frozen, it is not ...

The 2025 Antarctic sea ice minimum, reached on March 1, was just 1.98 million square kilometers, tying for the second-lowest annual minimum in the satellite record, alongside 2022 and 2024.

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

Recent studies have said that Arctic sea ice, along with Arctic temperatures, can affect weather patterns in the United States. Summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles on ...