The study was conducted on the Dotson Ice Shelf, located on a floating extension of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.

Antarctica's so-called "doomsday glacier" -- nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level -- has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, scientists say, ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

According to a new study, Antarctica is at risk of abrupt and potentially irreversible changes to its ice, ocean, and ecosystems that could have profound implications for Australia and beyond. The ...

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In an ambitious new study, they produced the first Antarctic-wide, ...

Antarctica's waters are getting saltier and driving a collapse in its sea ice — and scientists aren't sure why. Antarctic sea ice has been declining since 2015, defying model predictions to hit a ...

More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition. The ship, which sank in ...