West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.

This NASA picture shows part of the Thwaites glacier, in Antarctica, which is the size of Britain (AFP Photo/HANDOUT) A huge project to build an undersea ‘wall’ in Antarctica could offer a last-ditch ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice—frozen seawater that expands ...

A South African scientist posted footage from Antarctica, and the comments section exploded with different views from Mzansi locals The SA Agulhas II looked like a tiny toy next to the wall at Penguin ...

The German-operated Neumayer Station III was battered by a violent blizzard back in January, resulting in a huge slab of ice ...

Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades ...

Scientists have been debating why Antarctic sea ice, which once seemed impervious to climate change, has shrunk dramatically in the past decade. Now research suggests stronger winds have churned up ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than ...