A top climate scientist says we may have crossed a dangerous tipping point in Antarctica—and the long-term fallout could be ...

Understanding Why Antarctic Ice Loss Matters Antarctica may seem like another world—cold, distant, and forgotten—but what goes on there is already beginning to affect Antarctica may be remote, but ...

The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive chemical analysis, the researchers discovered just how extreme and outlier the ...

Antarctic sea ice began to change rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Since then it has remained well below the long-term average.

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

West Antarctica's collapse alone could cause sea levels to rise by more than a meter, or 3.4 feet, by 2100, according to a March study in Nature. Other studies project sea level rise of around 10 ...

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

West Antarctica, home to one of Earth's largest ice sheets, sits atop a volcanic hotspot known as the West Antarctic Rift. This region contains over 100 volcanic centers—many hidden beneath ice ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet.