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 ...

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

The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ...

Atmospheric rivers in Antarctica are expected to double by 2100, affecting snowfall, rainfall, and impacting sea-level rise.

The domestically built Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, which took part in China's 41st Antarctic expedition, initially departed from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Nov 1 last year and returned to ...

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 ...

On February 25, sea ice levels in the Bellingshausen Sea, Amundsen Sea and the Weddell Sea were reported to have reached historic lows of about 30% below the 1981-2010 average. Several causes have ...

If elevated ice-melt rates in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, can be restored to present levels within 100 years, rates of ice discharge and the sea level contribution from the region ...

What we have now is not working on many levels with the Steamship Authority. Currently, there are no requirements for the SSA board of five members to have prior management or maritime experience to ...

On 18 May, at 20:00 in the early evening, the British Naval Auxiliary vessel RFA Tidespring (IMO 9655535) arrived off Cape ...

When Roald Amundsen aimed for the North Pole, he turned to the sky to find a path through the ice. Though satellites make it ...