The story of a submersible vanishing beneath Antarctic ice after glimpsing seemingly impossible structures sounds like ...

An Australian research team deployed a robotic ocean probe in April 2024 to study Antarctica's hidden depths. The ...

After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

Ultimately, researchers determined that prior climate models omitted key features and underestimated the extent to which warm ...

Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

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Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...