It broke away from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf on Monday just weeks after a new crack was spotted in satellite images, experts say. According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the movement ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

They advance into the ocean until a calving event takes place. The calving of an iceberg from an ice shelf in Antarctica would normally not be newsworthy, but because of the place where it ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains ...

An international team of scientists recovered fossil coral reef samples from the shelf edge ... If elevated ice-melt rates in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, can be restored to ...

Antarctica's emperor penguin population may be decreasing faster ... a particular challenge for emperor penguins because of their dependence on seasonal sea ice. The species uses the frozen sea ice ...

Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's ice Latest in Features ...