Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

UC Irvine & NASA researchers have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that are causing ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored ...

This rate of evaporation is 10 times faster than the previous record. Scientists say other glaciers may also be affected by ...

"Quicker than we expected." Scientists puzzled by 'whodunnit' scenario unfolding in Antarctica: 'We disagree about the ...

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded ...

Antarctica's Hektoria Glacier has just set a new and troubling record: in late 2022, it retreated at a pace never before seen ...

A glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula has just broken speed records. In late 2022, Hektoria Glacier retreated about five miles (8 kilometers) in just two months, making it the fastest known ...

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around endless icebergs, frozen cliffs and mercurial glaciers. In Antarctica, the ...