Biologists have discovered new species of sea anemone while using a camera-equipped robot to explore the waters beneath 250-meter thick Ross Ice Shelf.

A new study reveals how local factors influence the Ross Ice Shelf's stability, refining predictions of how it will change and influence sea rise in the future.

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 ...

A new study in Antarctic waters has found a significant decrease of salinity, or freshening of the seawater surrounding the Ross Ice Shelf, indicating that ice shelf melt is caused by warming surface ...

The issue with the collapse of ice shelves, especially one as large as the Ross Ice Shelf, is that with the ice shelf gone ice can flow faster from land into the ocean, causing rising sea levels.

A new PNAS 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 ...

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.

(Inside Science) — Most of the worry over melting ice in Antarctica has focused on the rapidly melting western shore, where there is enough ice to raise worldwide sea levels by up to 4.3 feet. But new ...

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

Roughly the size of Spain, the Ross Ice Shelf stabilizes major glaciers along Antarctica’s coast — and is at risk of retreating, a new study finds.

In contrast, water underneath the Ross Ice Shelf — which acts as a buttress to stabilize the inland ice — remains cold. But will the Ross Ice Shelf melt? And, if so, when?

A high-tech expedition to sample the ocean under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf confirms what the earliest explorers thought: everywhere we look we find microbes, scavenging any energy source ...