Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice ...

Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

A crucial ice shelf holding back Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier may collapse within months, potentially speeding future sea ...

Coastal communities from Miami to Mumbai are losing ground to the ocean faster than most planning models assumed, and the ...

Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an understudied and ...

Scientists have identified a hidden climate tipping point that changed how Antarctica's ice sheet responds to warming.

Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed by research from the University of Gothenburg. Antarctic sea ice plays a ...