A newly discovered subglacial water network is playing a significant role in how Antarctica’s ice sheets move toward the ...

Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other continents—because its exploration, mapping, and “settlement” are all so ...

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

More well-known as ICE, the agency stated Monday that they were, "conducting enhanced targeted operations today in Chicago to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national ...

If you were to walk out onto the ice, it’s hard to know where the shoreline lies. The biggest danger with shelf ice is how unstable it is. Shelf ice can collapse from a person walking on it ...

Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf. But it began to ...

it can create spectacular blue ice, craggy piles and "volcanoes" that spray water high into the air, but officials say people should stay off shelf ice along the beach because it hides deadly secrets.

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Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ...

In 2004, iceberg A38 "grounded on its continental shelf, leaving dead penguin chicks and seal pups on beaches as massive ice chunks blocked their access to feeding grounds," said the BBC.