Antarctica is breaking apart in two very different directions. While West Antarctica hemorrhages ice into warming seas at an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...

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 ...

In layers of sediment accumulated on the sea floor over millions of years, researchers like us are finding evidence that when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological ...

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

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica -- widely known as the "Doomsday Glacier" -- is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Its future behavior remains one of the ...

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.

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant ...

Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with potentially “far-reaching implications” for global sea level rise, according to a recent ...

Dartmouth oceanographer Yoshihiro Nakayama created a high-resolution model to study the melting of two glaciers in western ...