New research explores the wide-ranging consequences of record low summer sea ice in Antarctica. From more ocean warming to ...

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 ...

Studies like this one demonstrate the interconnectedness of our planet. Researchers make stunning discoveries during 70-day ...

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 ...

In 1978, the American glaciologist John H. Mercer described how, in a warming world, we could expect a successive collapse of ice shelves extending southward along the Antarctic Peninsula.

Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one of Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck survivors ...

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 ...