Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

This discovery, driven by data from the European Space Agency's SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) satellite, challenges ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

Scientists have been struggling to understand why Antarctic sea ice has declined rapidly and continues to decline. Read more ...

Traditionally, melting sea ice is expected to freshen ocean surface waters, as freshwater from the ice dilutes the salty sea.

Visitor numbers to Antarctica could reach 450,000 a year within a decade, according to one scenario. How do we stem the tide?

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In an ambitious new study, they produced the first Antarctic-wide, high ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...