Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere ...

Larsen C lies next to a smaller ice shelf that disintegrated in 2002 after developing a crack similar to the one now growing in Larsen C. Map of Antarctica showing the amount of melting of ice ...

The autonomous underwater vehicle Ran was programmed to perform missions under the ice shelf. An advanced multibeam sonar was used to map the base of the ice at a distance of about 50 meters. Click to ...

A lucky group of scientists were able to explore a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice shelf broke, revealing newly exposed seafloor and a previously inaccessible ecosystem ...

When they leave the land and start to float, they are called ice shelves. The one closest to New Zealand's Scott Base is the largest: the Ross Ice Shelf. "It's about the size of France and completely ...

Pulling sleds first across the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, and then across the Ross Ice Shelf, in pitch black darkness, and bitingly cold temperatures. Their goal was to collect some emperor penguin ...

ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive ice shelf in Antarctica, revealing an underwater world never before seen by humans.