Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...

A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of ...

HELSINKI, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a quarter of Antarctica's coast-reaching glaciers are in retreat, shedding the equivalent of one Greater Los Angeles every three years, according to a ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

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

Discover how, while most of Antarctica remains stable, vulnerable sectors are losing ice equivalent to the size of Greater Los Angeles every three years.

Scientists observed ice retreat in the Northeast Antarctic Peninsula but no signs of warm water.

UC Irvine and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists analyzed three decades of satellite data to measure the retreat of ice sheets over the entirety of Antarctica. The study found more than ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes ...

Huge numbers of Emperor penguins in Antarctica may have died because of melting sea ice, experts fear. For the first time, ...

The United States listed emperor penguins as an endangered species in 2022 because multiple studies project large population ...

On February 28, 1959, the U.S. Air Force launched a new spy satellite prototype called Discoverer 1. This was the first ...