Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...

The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...

By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...

The melting of a massive ice shelf like FRIS would ultimately lead to huge sea level rise. However, researchers still have a lot to learn about this region, and it's unclear whether the increased flow ...

Australian scientists are monitoring the rapid melt of Denman Glacier, one of the largest frozen rivers in East Antarctica.

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic ... and increased volcanic activity could amplify the problem. Antarctic sea ice has been shrinking in recent years, hitting near-record lows ...

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...