At 10 a.m. on Saturday, the crew pulled up the gangplank and took in the mooring lines, and soon the Araon was steaming out ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

New research shows that warm ocean currents triggered a rapid collapse of part of East Antarctica’s ice sheet 9,000 years ago, offering clues about future sea level rise.

Scientists have discovered that the Antarctic ice sheet witnessed a rapid collapse thousands of years ago. This was also ...

Thwaites Glacier is the widest glacier on Earth and a crucial component of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is already experiencing significant ice loss. Much of this glacier rests on bedrock below ...

The Thwaites Glacier's eastern ice shelf is crucial for its stability, supported at its northern end by an ocean floor ridge. However, research by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

A rogue Argo oceanographic float drifted away to accidentally collect data on one of Antarctica’s most inaccessible regions.

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Scientists ...