Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Scientists ...

The Doomsday Glacier is at the center of a striking new discovery hidden deep under Antarctica’s frozen edge. For the first ...

The Thwaites Glacier, located in West Antarctica and popularly nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier,” holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by about 65 ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of 3 knots, ...

The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of three ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

Icebergs are large chunks of ice in the ocean that have broken away from an ice sheet or ice shelf. This pictured iceberg contains layers of sediment and algae, which is what gives it its stripes.

Chief Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Professor of Climate Science, Australian National University Nerilie Abram received funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Ariaan Purich ...