Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

A “serendipitous” discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems can thrive beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice ...

“During the last year the ice shelf has lost about 1,800 square kilometres or about 14% of its size.” Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted sno ...

There are only two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. They contain more than 99% of the land ice on Earth. The huge size of ... floating ice shelves that push ...

A massive Antarctic ice shelf is breaking ... Scientists estimate the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which was originally about the size of Northern Ireland, had been in place for several hundred years.

Incredible images from the NASA Earth Observatory show A-84 'calving' from the George VI Ice Shelf along the Antarctic coastline. The new berg was 'born' in mid-January and measures about ...

The iceberg that sank the Titanic was perhaps a quarter-mile long, a laughably tiny thing in comparison ... of what is unwell in the Antarctic. The ice shelves have lost billions of tons of ...

The Antarctic ice sheet, Earth's largest ice mass and nearly twice the size of Australia ... The researchers focused on five of Antarctica's ice shelves—floating platforms of ice that extend ...

A previously hidden under-sea ecosystem has been revealed after an iceberg broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a massive glacier on the Antarctic ... "Therefore, the size of this specimen ...

TASS/. Roscosmos’ satellites are monitoring a huge iceberg, whose size is on par with the city of London, which broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, the Russian Space Agency said on ...