A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

The Shackleton Ice Shelf included the Conger-Glenzer Ice Shelf before it collapsed. ( Supplied: Sarah Thompson ) "However, when ice shelves thin, retreat, fracture, and crevasse, their buttressing ...

In the fall of 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank off the coast of Antarctica, stranding its crew on drifting sea ice and setting in motion one of history’s most ...

Scientists once thought the East Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea levels 52m (170ft), was stable. But now its ice shelves are beginning to melt.

Huge congratulations to @Endurance_22 and @NatGeo for finding the wreck of #Shackleton’s #Endurance. ... — similar sponges have been found under Antarctica's Filchner ice shelf. ...

Last year, the team observed about two metres of melt a year at the base of the Shackleton Ice Shelf side of Denman Glacier. On the Scott Glacier side, it was only one metre a year.

Where is the Larsen ice shelf? The Larsen ice shelf stretches along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in northwest Antarctica, on the Weddell Sea. Geographically distinct sections occupy bays ...

Giant iceberg breaks away from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica 00:59. The world's biggest iceberg — which is roughly three times the size of New York City — is "on the move" after being ...