When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

The world’s largest iceberg is said to be breaking apart. Found in Antarctica, the shrinking megaberg, has been found breaking into pieces. The formation, which makes up the world’s most enduring ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has shown signs of record-breaking growth after decades of contributing to global sea-level rise — as experts reveal their theories why. A study published in Science ...

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before. A study Friday shows the ice shelf has shrunk by one-fifth ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon ...

Earlier in 2025, UNSW Sydney Ph.D. candidate Christina Schmidt submitted her thesis—from the deck of Australia's multi-billion-dollar icebreaker, just off the East Antarctic coast. Subscribe to our ...

A rift in an Antarctic ice shelf will soon create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, according to scientists. In the last six days, the rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf has grown by 17 ...

SANTIAGO >> A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile in the Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of 6 miles today, the United States Geological Survey said, ...

Icebergs are large chunks of ice in the ocean that have broken away from an ice sheet or ice shelf. This pictured iceberg contains layers of sediment and algae, which is what gives it its stripes.