A dirty-looking “iceberg” in the Weddell Sea turned out to be something fixed, rocky, and missing from available charts. When ...

Scientists have finally mapped the elusive “Marginal Ice Zone” of the Southern Ocean, providing the clear look at this critical region.Published in Nature Communications on May 29, 2026, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up ...

A previously unidentified island in Antarctica's Weddell Sea has been discovered by researchers, after what was marked as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have unveiled ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

Antarctica's sea ice started shrinking dramatically in 2015 after resisting global warming for decades, and researchers now know why. A study published May 8 in the journal Science Advances reveals ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...

The Thwaites Glacier is on the "cusp of collapse", said David Holland, a professor of ocean science at New York University.

The claim: Polar sea ice extents show climate change is a 'scam' A Dec. 23, 2024, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, with color coding that ...