When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape of peaks, valleys and plateaus. "We were surprised – we had to ...

The hypothetical plan, as outlined in a January 2024 news article in Nature, could entail building a 100-meter (328-foot) ...

Researchers have proposed a groundbreaking plan to install an 80-kilometer underground curtain to protect the West Antarctic ...

Antarctica's melting ice could raise sea levels significantly. Scientists urge urgent greenhouse gas reductions globally.

Satellite imagery captures flipped icebergs in stunning blues and greens, along with a penguin colony's surprising signature.

Hundreds of concerned scientists came together in Australia recently to discuss how we can save Antarctica in what's being ...

Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. A new study published in the journal Nature shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the ...

There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s. It is the southern hemisphere summer, when you'd ...

Icefin has reached the point at which the warm ocean water meets the wall of ice at the front of ... right in the centre of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - a vast basin of ice that contains more ...

"Thwaites could easily trigger a runaway [West Antarctic] ice sheet collapse that would ultimately ... The more complex approach would be to build an actual wall underneath the glacier ...