Scientists have solved the mystery of how a gaping hole nearly twice the size of New Jersey that formed in Antarctica's sea ... A ‘polynya’ is a large ice-free area that develops in an ...

Sea ice surrounding the continent expands outward, effectively doubling Antarctica's size. But during the winters of 2016 and ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne ... FRIS might have a big problem in a century or two," Naughten said. FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

It's part of a broader research campaign to better understand changes to the nearby Denman Glacier — the fastest-melting glacier in East Antarctica ... drilling a hole in the ice, they ...

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 survived earlier warm periods intact. Lately it ...