In 1978, when few researchers were paying attention to global ... the heart of Antarctica’s vast ice dome begins to melt. The periphery, however, is another matter, and steady warming there ...

Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings. This dramatic melting could cause serious issues for coastal ...

Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms. Global warming could awaken dormant volcanoes, triggering a chain reaction with unpredictable consequences. This recent discovery sheds light on ...

Sea levels around Antarctica are rising ... finding is certainly a consequence of melting ice in the Southern Ocean, but the connection with global warming is, for the moment, tenuous.

Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat of the ice sheet in some regions, raising global sea levels ... of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed ...

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified ... In the South, the effect is equally ominous. Antarctica's shape is changing as three huge ice areas, the Wordie ...

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December, and now, photos captured by ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the ... out of five Australians now live. East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so ...