In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

Dave Malkoff is a national correspondent with the CBS Innovation Lab, where his work appears ... a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice shelf broke, revealing newly exposed ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a thriving ecosystem beneath it, according to researchers. On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from ...

On January 13, 2025, 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.

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

"The George VI Ice Shelf buttresses the largest volume of upstream grounded ice of any Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf," said lead author and CIRES research scientist Alison Banwell in a statement ...

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. “We seized ...

The breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica is getting closer and will eventually produce an iceberg the size of Delaware prowling the Southern Ocean, according to new NASA data.

Last year a new study revealed ocean currents are playing a large part in collapsing Antarctic ice shelves. Meandering currents and the ocean floor cause a welling up of warm water to shallower ...