In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.
Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.
A team led by Anna Wahlin, a professor of oceanographic physics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, made a remarkable ...
The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...
If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.
Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...
Dartmouth oceanographer Yoshihiro Nakayama created a high-resolution model to study the melting of two glaciers in western ...
Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies ...
An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.
A study published Monday finds parts of Antarctica's ice shelves are expected to melt in the coming years, no matter how much progress is made to slash greenhouse emissions and mitigate global warming ...
There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...
An Argo ocean float was lost in the Antarctic for months under the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves, and it returned with ...