The American flew from Union Glacier to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf at roughly 79°S -- close to, but not directly on, the ...

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March showed that the Ross Ice Shelf slips daily, reported Washington University in St. Louis, in a story posted by SciTechDaily. According to ...

The Ross Ice Shelf appears to be melting in previously unknown ways. This is an Inside Science story. Most of the worry over melting ice in Antarctica has focused on the rapidly melting western shore, ...

Warmer surface temperatures during summers can cause more ice on Antarctica ice shelves to melt into standing water ponds, then leak into cracks and increase the odds of collapse, according to a new ...

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ocean waters over the last four decades. Scientists from the University of ...

It's a not a new song from a musician, but a new recording of sounds coming from Antarctica's largest ice shelf does resemble singing. The American Geophysical Union released the recording. The Ross ...

An international team of scientists—including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York—is undergoing an ambitious mission to obtain critical geological records from the West ...

The WISSARD Deep Field Site is located 530 miles from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Ross Sea (Photo by J. Raine) UC Santa Cruz researchers collected sediment samples from beneath the ...

At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the ...

Recently-released audio reveals what it sounds like when an ice shelf in Antarctica “sings,” according to a new study. And the eerie sound is chilling — pun intended. Those findings were published in ...