If the sheets of ice that sit on ... the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — for the next 1,000 years. The more complex approach would be to build an actual wall underneath the glacier ...

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab ...

Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

All the melting going on the Arctic has some researchers wondering what the world's coastlines would look like if, say, all of Greenland's ice were ... great ice dome of East Antarctica melted ...

Scientists in East Antarctica ... Dome C is an area of 10 km2, located 35 km from the Italian-French Concordia Station — one of the most extreme places on Earth. By analyzing the ice cores ...

Millions of years from now, it may be jungle again. But for all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Explorers struggled to survive, and researchers struggled to ...

The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice was calved from Antarctica’s Filchner ice shelf ... “It looks like a towering wall emerging from the ocean, stretching from horizon to horizon ...

ice core scientist from British Antarctic Survey, the UK partner in Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, who is part of the team at Dome C explains: “In the early 2000s we drilled an ice core from ...

Beijing’s aim to declare a special managed area at the ice sheet’s highest point ... holding implications for future Antarctic governance. In 2009, China built its third research station – Kunlun ...