melt the ice underneath, and thus accumulate in tiny cryoconite holes (looking like miniature potholes) and meltwater creeks. — Credit: Julien Seguinot/Flickr Together, the Antarctic and Greenland Ice ...

On 13 January, an iceberg the size of Chicago named A-84 broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. “ ...

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When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing immediately ...

Another team investigated why unusual ice formations once prominent on the surface of Antarctica had suddenly disappeared. The latest discovery of an entire community of organisms living and thriving ...

In 2007, Peter Noerdlinger and Kay Brower published a study examining the effect of floating ice melting in salt water. They found that when freshwater ice melted, the meltwater was 2.6 percent more ...

Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...

A previously hidden under-sea ecosystem has been revealed after an iceberg broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a massive glacier on the Antarctic ice sheet. Researchers from Schmidt Ocean ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles longcracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...