Antarctica’s frozen frontier is retreating, and the scale is far greater than many realize. Over the last several years, ...
A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of ...
Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...
HELSINKI, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a quarter of Antarctica's coast-reaching glaciers are in retreat, shedding the equivalent of one Greater Los Angeles every three years, according to a ...
After analyzing three decades of satellite radar data, scientists have created the first continent-wide record of Antarctic ...
A new map reveals where Antarctica is retreating fast, exposing hidden hotspots of grounded ice loss and future sea level risks.
Researchers reporting in Nature Climate Change conclude that several Antarctic ice drainage basins may already be committed ...
An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...
Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?
The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...
Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...
Learn how 30 years of satellite radar data mapped Antarctica’s grounding lines and revealed more than 10 Los Angeles–sized areas of grounded ice loss in vulnerable regions.