A23a is currently the largest iceberg in the world, with a surface area of about 1,200 square miles. Since breaking off ...

Despite its overwhelmingly icy appearance, Antarctica is actually a solid continent of rocky mountains and now experts know ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

Loss of the Antarctic ice sheet ... ocean circulation is the spatial distribution of sea-surface height as determined by Earth-observing satellites. Normally, sea ice in the Antarctic and Arctic ...

Map showing main regions of the Arctic. Credit: Carbon Brief Arctic ... As winds pushed the ice northwards, “ocean wave action” melted the thin ice at the edge of the ice sheet, he says. February was ...

The Arctic now exists within a “new regime,” where signals such as sea ice loss and ocean temperatures may ... means land ice — glaciers and ice sheets — melts faster, adding to sea ...

The warning comes in a new large-scale study of crevasses on the world's second largest body of ice. Using 3D surface maps ... ice sheet and accelerating the calving of icebergs into the ocean.

The Arctic Ocean could have its first ice free day as ... You may like Scientists identify tipping point for Greenland's ice sheet — and it's not far off Global sea ice levels hit worrying ...

The vast ice sheets that historically kept killer whales out of the Arctic Ocean are melting as the region ... to them more easily than ever before. A map from the study showing where killer ...

Now, new research has found that Arctic Ocean sea ice is shrinking ... That’s a key difference between sea ice and ice on land, such as glaciers or ice sheets in Greenland, which take thousands ...

Arctic Ice has an interesting — and controversial — business model. It scours the fjord near the country’s capital city of Nuuk for icebergs that have naturally detached from the ice sheet ...