Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves. The photos offer an unparalleled ...

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

Wind causes the surface of the ice shelf to vibrate, creating a "singing" sound across the Texas-sized slab.

The shelf, which can be up to 10,000 feet thick, is the largest of several that hold back West Antarctica's massive amounts of ice. If these were to collapse, global sea level would rise by ten feet.

An international team of scientists has found part of the world's largest ice shelf is melting 10 times faster than the overall ice shelf average, due to solar heating of the surrounding ocean ...

Direct study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf is difficult because of the extreme conditions at the location. Scientists believe they have found a way for monitoring of changes on the ice shelf from ...

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest chunk of ice on Antarctica, at roughly the size of France. Scientists have known that ice streams have a tendency to lurch at least once a day with the tides, but ...

An iceberg 47 miles long and 4.6 miles across has broken off the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, the National Ice Center reported Thursday.

One section of the Ross Ice Shelf is already exhibiting some changes. Shifts in wind direction are blowing sea ice away from the ocean in front of the shelf, creating larger than normal ice-free ...

A new study is providing clues about how Antarctica's nation-sized Ross Ice Shelf might respond to a warming climate. US and Japanese oceanographers showed that a 100,000-square-mile section of ...