Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

New study shows melting Antarctic ice adds only a small amount of iron to the ocean. Most iron comes from deep water and sea floor sediments.

Nearly 90 percent of Antarctica is buried under ice that averages about 1.3 miles or 2.2 kilometers thick. In some areas, the ice stacks up to nearly 3 miles or 4.8 kilometers deep. For years, ...

Antarctica’s frozen frontier is retreating, and the scale is far greater than many realize. Over the last several years, ...

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate ...

A new map reveals where Antarctica is retreating fast, exposing hidden hotspots of grounded ice loss and future sea level ...

In recent months, headlines about Antarctica’s ice loss have circulated widely. One claim says the continent has lost an area of ice equal to ten cities the size of Los Angeles over the past three ...

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

A 23-million-year record hidden beneath Antarctica’s ice may reshape forecasts of how rising temperatures affect global ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.

A University of Minnesota researcher is back home after a months-long journey to the end of the earth, collecting ice samples that are likely millions of years old. "Not a day goes by where I don't ...