Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption. It is the sudden release and ...

A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...