The Great Crack-Up By JEFFREY KLUGER Photographs ... calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the planet’s air ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A 30-mile long crack in the Nansen Ice Shelf could break off a block of ice twice the size of Manhattan at any moment. Produced by Jacqui Frank. Original reporting ...

The British Antarctic Survey said the break occurred in the early hours of Monday after a crack suddenly appeared in the ice shelf a few weeks ago. The break-off is the third major iceberg calving ...

A door-like ice formation near Showa Station in Antarctica. Credit: Google Maps Humans have a beautifully innate sense of ...

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and stronger If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably ...

Director of Operations Captain Tim Stockings said Halley VI Research Station sits on a floating ice shelf and relocation is scheduled to be completed early March 2017 British Antarctic Survey (BAS ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica. Working in extreme conditions of -35 degree C, the team ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, ...