Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, ...

However, satellites do more than just track the accelerating flow of glaciers toward the ocean and measure ... of ice—both ice floating in the ocean—sea ice, icebergs and ice shelves, and ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to researchers.

Humbert and Braun have been watching changes in radar images of the ice taken by an ESA satellite, Envisat. Two big chunks of the shelf broke away last year, leaving the ice bridge only 900 metres ...

UCT researchers explored Antarctica’s Fimbul Ice Shelf, collecting data to model future climate shifts and marking South ...

Newly released satellite footage shows the world’s largest ... A23a originally split from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and then remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell ...

Polar sea ice has reached ... up Antarctic ice shelf melt and alter worldwide weather patterns. However, predicting the long-term future of Antarctic sea ice remains tricky. Satellite observations ...

ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive ice shelf in Antarctica, revealing an underwater world never before seen by humans.