NASA’s Terra satellite captured a breathtaking image of the Amundsen Gulf, where the seasonal breakup of sea ice is taking ...

New research reveals powerful Antarctic winds that could be accelerating glacier melt and rising seas. In the far reaches of ...

In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) race over its coastal regions, including both the Thwaites and Pine ...

The new research focused on the Amundsen Sea, an area of the Southern Ocean that surrounds some of Antarctica’s largest glaciers, which are buttressed by the thinning and retreating ice shelves.

Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region?-?the Amundsen Sea Embayment?-?has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over a 25-year?period.?? Scientists have ...

MORE: Antarctic sea ice has reached a record low for the year, researchers say The West Antarctic region includes Thwaites, a glacier located in the Amundsen Sea that is one of the largest ...

Study reveals low-level wind jets reaching 32 m/s in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea region accelerate Thwaites and Pine Island glacier melting.

The West Antarctic ice sheet is Antarctica’s largest contributor to sea-level rise. The ice loss is driven by interactions with the Southern Ocean, particularly in the Amundsen Sea. This study ...

It was 1985, and the researchers aboard were sailing through one of the world’s most remote places: the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. A graduate student onboard, Jill Singer, got to try her hand at ...

Amundsen Sea, Antarctica — Up on the helicopter deck Meghan Spoth and Victoria Fitzgerald practice setting up camp. Just over Spoth’s shoulder a mile-wide tabular iceberg slides past ...