"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

While that scenario is extreme, it shows how much water is stored in Antarctica and how important it is to our climate. Antarctic ice sheets are the thermostat of the planet, and that thermostat ...

Antarctica’s ice sheet is now being lost ... ice shelves float on the ocean surface – but they originate from the land. Ice shelves are fed by vast glaciers of compacted snow which flow ...

Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate ... On the Antarctic Peninsula, the finger of land that points up to South America, the losses have risen from seven billion to 33 billion ...

Land now inhabited by 600 million Chinese would ... 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’s the ice that covers Antarctica that is a bigger real menace. As it melts and sloughs off the land, it raises sea levels worldwide. According to one 2017 study, if greenhouse-gas emissions ...

noting that sea ice in Antarctica is more than just frozen water. "It is as essential as trees are to land, and without it, many species couldn't exist." Warnings about biodiversity problems go ...

Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape ...

A three man Austrian expedition to Queen Maud Land in the Antarctica at the end of 2009 resulted in eleven first ascents ... After flying in to Holtanna BC they spent almost a month exploring what ...