Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar. 3, 2025 — Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet ... of how water moves over Greenland.

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...

particularly if we want to use ice sheet modeling as a predicting tool. If we want our predictions of ice movement over the next few decades to be robust, we need to get the physics right." ...

“I was surprised by just how much snow was dumped on the ice sheet over such a short period…but it’s a gobsmacking contribution to Greenland’s annual ice mass.” “I was surprised by ...

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...