Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic ... A variety of imaging techniques were used to map out the bedrock beneath the colossal ice sheet – which has an average thickness of 2,148 ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to ...

It shouldn’t be particularly surprising to scientists that crevasses are getting larger across Greenland. As the ocean warms, the ice sheet has sped up in response, increasing the stresses ...

The first method of propping up the glacier they modeled was sticking a series of 1,000-foot mounds underneath it. While this wouldn't ... ice sheets will survive in the long term at anything ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ...

Scientists explored the seafloor after an iceberg broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. They were shocked by what they found.

East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem unmeltable. It survived earlier warm periods intact. Lately it ...

"If we don't have ... Greenland's ice sheet shrinking. Spring freshwater ice breakup in the Northern Hemisphere now occurs nine days earlier than it did 150 years ago, and autumn freeze-up ten ...