At the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, glaciers flow into the Southern Ocean, forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilizing the ice sheet. They're also shrinking.

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater ...

The rapidly melting Antarctic ice sheet could trigger the eruption of over 100 volcanoes hidden beneath the ice. The thinning ice is destabilizing the volcano's magma chambers, say scientists.

If Antarctic ice continues to melt at a rapid rate, largely due to the impacts of climate change, it could trigger volcanic eruptions and a violent feedback loop, a new study suggests. In a new ...

Writing in Science, the researchers said that the demise of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) would result in a sea level rise of 3.3m. Previous estimates had forecast a rise in the region of ...

Like the glaciers that feed them, ice shelves are immense. Yet the ocean processes that control basal melting, and the fate of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, occur on the scale of millimetres.

Melting ice in Antarctica could ... computer simulations to examine how the gradual loss of ice affects magma chambers buried under the Antarctic ice sheet. The findings indicate that as the ...

A major ice ... West Antarctic ice sheet will totally collapse as climate change drives up global temperatures, says Wolff. However, he and other researchers say sea level rise due to melting ...

The world's largest iceberg is on the move, and could be set to collide with a remote British island. Known as the 'queen of ...