One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

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

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.

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 ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt extent dropped to nearly zero or below average from February 1 to March 15 ...

The more than 656,000-mile sheet — an area about three times the size of Texas — is nearly two miles thick, and contains about 696,000 cubic miles of ice. Like the Antarctic ice sheet, the mass helps ...