Antarctic sea ice began to change rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Since then it has remained well below the long-term average.

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

Antarctica gained ice between 2021 and 2023, driven by heavy snowfall. But scientists say the growth is temporary and does ...

Antarctic ice sheet loss will probably lead to up to about 0.3 meters, or nearly 1 foot, of sea level rise by 2100, she said, and total sea level rise could be about half a meter to a meter (1.6 ...

A record loss of sea ice in Antarctica is dramatically affecting the survival of emperor penguins, researchers said Thursday. Last year’s historic low levels of ice around the Antarctic Penin… ...

Antarctica, the planet’s largest ice sheet, lost 219 billion tons of ice annually from 2012 through 2017 — approximately triple the 73 billion-ton melt rate of a decade ago, the scientists ...

Alarming new research shows that the massive East Antarctica ice sheet is already a major contributor to sea-level rise. Ice loss from Antarctica has increased sixfold since the 1970s, research finds ...

West Antarctica is the continent’s major ice loser. Monday’s research affirms that finding, detailing how a single glacier, Pine Island, has lost more than a trillion tons of ice since 1979.

Now, a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that annual ice mass loss in Antarctica increased by six times between 1979 and 2017, corresponding ...

The combined results of 24 different surveys of Antarctic ice loss suggest that the rate of melting has tripled in the last five years. Antarctica is losing up to 219 billion metric tons of ice ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...