In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

The find is hardly unusual; in 2021, another team uncovered sponges and other species underneath nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ... to a new map of the south polar ...

Overall, the number of melt days exceeded the 1991 to 2020 long-term average by approximately 10 days in the Larsen ... Ice Shelves into March, although with a frozen surface at that point. Colleagues ...

In a world where seeing is believing ... Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord, Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, and the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica are some of the most documented regions.

The scientific work of USGS, which is investigating the impacts of climate change around the world, including an ... the USGS study released today maps recent glacier retreat along Antarctica’s Larsen ...

Sea ice’s relative importance to ocean level The implication of Noerdlinger and Brower’s 2007 paper is that sea ice melt gives a small boost to ocean level, but if conditions warmed enough to melt all ...

Antarctica has always been a place of mystery, with its icy surface concealing an entire world beneath. Scientists have long sought to understand what lies below the vast ice sheet and, now, a new map ...

The breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica is getting closer and will eventually produce an iceberg the size of Delaware prowling the Southern Ocean, according to new NASA data.

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...