The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) ...

A large iceberg broke off the deteriorating Thwaites glacier and, along with sea ice, it is blocking two research ships with dozens of scientists from examining how fast its crucial ice shelf is ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciencesreveals powerful and previously unknown winds racing over parts of West Antarctica. These fast-moving low-level jets (LLJs) are sweeping across ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

New research reveals powerful Antarctic winds that could be accelerating glacier melt and rising seas. In the far reaches of ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events – such as atmospheric rivers – by 2100, with implications for ...

Penguins could be playing a crucial role in stabilizing the climate in Antarctica when they go No. 2, according to new ...

Study reveals low-level wind jets reaching 32 m/s in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea region accelerate Thwaites and Pine Island glacier melting.

The frigid cold in Northwest Indiana has formed beautiful but unstable shelf ice along the Lake Michigan shoreline over the last few weeks. Shelf ice, which forms when a portion of a lake surface ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future ...