A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was ...

They found animal and marine life as deep as nearly 4,300 feet. The species in the newly discovered ecosystem include ...

As the Washington Post reports, researchers aboard the vessel Falkor (too) found an unexpected marine ecosystem beneath a ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series with a talk by Richard B.

SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING. FAST. THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE. IT’S OUTSTRIPPED THE GENERAL WARMING OF ...

the effects of meltwater from Antarctic ice and an underestimation of regional rainfall. “We found that the Southern Ocean cooling trend is actually a response to global warming, which accelerates ice ...

An ice shelf twenty times as large as the island of Manhattan, called the Conger ice shelf, had suddenly fragmented into icebergs and floated away. The Antarctic ... When they collapse, a ...

the British Antarctic Survey, and Chile’s Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH). While the study focused on a single location, researchers suspect that similar algal ecosystems may exist elsewhere on ...

On a January morning in 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke free from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It drifted into the frigid waters of the Bellingshausen Sea, leaving behind a ...

Credit: Ehrenfeucht et al. [2025], Figure 2 The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a significant factor in determining the rate of future sea level rise due to global warming. Yet, our ...