West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica's largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a ...

Scientists have identified a hidden climate tipping point that changed how Antarctica's ice sheet responds to warming.

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

Dr Robert Larter, marine geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey, warns that the shelf's breakup is 'very likely to happen sometime this year'.

This NASA picture shows part of the Thwaites glacier, in Antarctica, which is the size of Britain (AFP Photo/HANDOUT) A huge project to build an undersea ‘wall’ in Antarctica could offer a last-ditch ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much ...

Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades ...

A South African scientist posted footage from Antarctica, and the comments section exploded with different views from Mzansi locals The SA Agulhas II looked like a tiny toy next to the wall at Penguin ...

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica’s largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a ...