Antarctic ice shelves have experienced only minor changes in surface melt rates over the past four decades, unlike the rapid increase in surface melt experienced by Greenland’s glaciers during the ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

The Antarctic seafloor is one of the last truly unseen places on Earth, and the machines we send into that darkness are ...

Anthropogenic warming is projected to intensify disproportionately in polar regions relative to the global average -- a phenomenon referred to as polar amplification. While this effect has been ...

MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) land surface temperature measurements in combination with in situ air temperature records from 119 meteorological stations are used to reconstruct ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has compiled a detailed topographical map using a wide range of datasets to reveal what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Bedmap2 builds on a previous iteration ...

Surface ice in Greenland has been melting at an increasing rate in recent decades, while the trend in Antarctica has moved in the opposite direction, according to researchers. Surface ice in Greenland ...

Planes crossing the top of the world have become so normal that most people barely notice them anymore. Even so, hardly any ...

A team of glaciologists set out to quantify how much ice melt occurred on Antarctica's ice shelves from 1980 to 2021. The results might seem to be good news for the region, but the researchers say ...