When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Antarctica is the world’s southernmost and least-populated continent… Unless you count its colonies of penguins, which are ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

As strange as it may sound, scientists seem to have found a strong connection between storms and Antarctic ice. The latter is ...

When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.