Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

A monumental iceberg, once the largest in the world, is slowly disintegrating as it drifts through warmer seas. Iceberg A-23A, a colossal fragment that broke off from Antarctica in 1986, is now ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday. The collapse, captured ...

An iceberg that scientists say was the sixth-largest ever recorded in satellite imagery has now disintegrated, immediately spilling a massive amount of fresh water into the ocean. The massive A68A ...

A sudden calving at the George VI Ice Shelf opened a rare window into a realm long sealed from sunlight. What researchers found—thriving life beneath ...

They could have missed it — a black-and-white aerial image taken back in 1966. The photographer is imagined to have been a member of the U.S. Navy who was likely mapping the Antarctic landscape. But, ...

Shelf Life: Icebergs are large masses of frozen freshwater that measure at least 15 meters in length. The largest ones typically break off from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica before slowly melting ...