A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-up to three large-scale iceberg "calving" events in Antarctica, ...

New research explores the wide-ranging consequences of record low summer sea ice in Antarctica. From more ocean warming to ...

Issues surrounding polar ice have long been a topic of concern. Scientists make surprising discovery after studying ice in ...

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New autonomous system to monitor Arctic's melting ice Date: February 10, 2025 Source: Florida Atlantic University Summary: Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea ...

More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The UW-Madison Department of Food Science discovered that a natural compound can prevent ice cream from melting. As a PhD student at UW-Madison, Cameron Wicks has been researching ...

That post received a comment asking why melting glaciers don’t cool warming oceans. When I saw the comment, it was a reminder that complex science topics are often interpreted from a simplistic ...

Melting ice solves leap-second problem — for now Humans’ effect on the polar ice sheets is slowing Earth’s rotation, posing challenges for its alignment with the official time standard.

“The melting Greenland Ice Sheet and additional flow from rivers into the Arctic Ocean are all contributing to the large blob of fresher-than-normal water observed south of Greenland,” she said.