When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...
If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...
Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...
The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...
The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades, NASA and NOAA officials say.
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on ...
A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are ...
When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach -40°C or lower in the interior, with the lowest ever temperature on Earth ...
Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When polar explorer Robert Swan leads his Ice Station Expedition to Antarctica in December, Big ...
Working in Antarctica comes with risks most people never imagine. Because brutal winters make evacuation impossible for ...