Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

In West Antarctica, the interior of the ice sheet sits atop bedrock that lies well below sea level. As the Southern Ocean warms, scientists are concerned the ice sheet will continue to retreat ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell ...

In one of the modeling scenarios, the team removed a 3,280-foot-thick ice sheet over the course of 300 years, which is considered moderate melting for West Antarctica, and found a significant ...

THE Ellsworth Mountains are centred at 79° S., 85° W. in West Antarctica south of the eastern Pacific Ocean (sec Fig. 1). They extend about 220 miles in a north-north-west direction and are ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 billion tons per year. And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of ...

While that scenario is extreme, it shows how much water is stored in Antarctica and how important it is to our climate. Antarctic ice sheets are the thermostat of the planet, and that thermostat ...