"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting the area.

That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 ... In January 2023, a massive piece of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of two New ...

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ... path has been known since Shackleton’s time, he said, referring ...

At the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, glaciers flow into the Southern Ocean, forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They're also shrinking.

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December ... along one of the region’s largest ice shelves, indicating that global warming is continuing ...

Smaller calving events, not large icebergs, drive Antarctic ice sheet loss. Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate ...