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.

A 30-mile long crack in the Nansen Ice Shelf could break off a block of ice twice the size of Manhattan at any moment. Produced by Jacqui Frank. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI ...

In July, a 1 trillion–ton iceberg, roughly the size of Delaware, calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the ...

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 ...