Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

Scientists from the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 379 showed that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated ...

The sea ice changed completely over the course of a few hours, from disconnected floes to a vast, snow-covered plain.

A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) say that ...

Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over a 25-year period. If all the lost ice was piled ...

Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

in West Antarctica's Amundsen Sea Sector are thinning twice as fast near the coast as they did in the 1990s, researchers report. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning ...

China's polar research icebreaker Xuelong, also known as Snow Dragon, currently on the country's 42nd Antarctic scientific ...