The world's largest iceberg has finally ended its ocean odyssey, crumbling into chunks just shy of its 40th birthday.

Strange structures found lurking beneath Antarctic ice ...

When winter sneaks in, the people around the country get prepared for the days ahead. During the summer, we experience some ...

Ice calving, the dramatic breaking of colossal icebergs, is a natural glacier process amplified by global warming. Witnessed ...

A new analysis projects that as much as 120,610 square kilometers of new, ice-free land could emerge in Antarctica by 2300. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized ...

An activist group has put emperor penguins at risk of extinction as climate change creates and inhospitable habitat for them ...

Observations suggest a major melting event at the Ross Ice Shelf was connected to atmospheric turbulence. The Ross Ice Shelf ...

Though under 0.6% of Antarctica is estimated to be free of ice cover today, scientists predict there will be up to a 550% ...

Grounded ice rests on the bedrock of the Antarctic continent, while ice shelves float above the rock on a pool of seawater.

Antarctic sea ice decline in 2015 was caused by weakening ocean stratification and strong storms that mixed warm deep water ...

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information. In an open-access study published Feb. 27 in Geophysical ...