An international team of oceanographers, Antarctic specialists and meteorologists has found evidence that the collapse of ...

Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate. Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of ...

"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

The last two years have seen unprecedented falls in the levels of sea ice around Antarctica, which serves as a protective ...

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 ...

For over 60 years Antarctica has been a "veritable Shangri-La", said The Economist, "untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome". While Britain, Argentina ...

Winter sea ice in the Antarctic is at a historic low, and scientists are working to understand why an area of ice the size of Greenland is missing. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey have ...

One of the biggest issues in Antarctica is undoubtedly the rapid melting of its ice. It was recently reported that sheets of Antarctic ice are melting three times as fast as they did 30 years ago.

Antarctica is famous for its frozen continent covered in ice. Icebergs are large pieces of freshwater ice that have broken off glaciers and ice shelves. Only a small part of an iceberg is visible ...

East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem unmeltable. It survived earlier warm periods intact. Lately it ...

A breathtaking video capturing a remarkable journey through a massive ice cave in Antarctica, and revealing the hidden beauty beneath the frigid surface, has mesmerized viewers on TikTok.

Two crucial glaciers in West Antarctica may be losing ice faster than they have over the last 5,000 years, according to a new study published in June. The international team, led by the University ...