At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the ...
Since its inception in 2017, the Polar Institute has become a premier forum for discussion and policy analysis of Arctic and ...
International scientists have been working to save the missing piece in the puzzle of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet WAIS melt in the Ross Sea region ...
New research has begun to shine a light on a period around 7,000 years ago when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet experienced ...
As the climate warms and Antarctica's glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to ...
New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse of the ...
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
Scientists have just uncovered a troubling cycle that’s accelerating the Antarctica ice melting even faster than we thought, ...
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ...
A recent study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf has revealed a fascinating discovery: the entire ice sheet moves forward once ...
In Antarctica ... icequakes and fractures in the ice shelf. Ice shelves can build up more ice on the continent by acting as brakes for glaciers and ice streams, slowing their flow to the sea, where ...
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...