Antarctica is melting — but not the way most people imagine. Beneath its massive ice shelves, the ocean is quietly eating away at the ice from below. This process, called basal melting, is happening ...

Citing The Conversation and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the WEF noted that 98% of the Antarctic habitat is "under ...

New maps from a lost under-ice robot reveal strange, dune-like patterns beneath West Antarctica—features hundreds of meters ...

Beneath West Antarctica’s ice, scientists just mapped a sculpted underworld—and it may rewrite how we think ice shelves melt.

Antarctica, the southernmost continent of the planet, is much more than just an icy white desert. An interwoven system of shifting ice, dribbling waters, and howling winds determines the day-to-day ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...