The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

Colder-than-normal temperatures have led to the rapid development of shelf ice on Lake Michigan. Shelf ice, while appearing ...

As a clear demonstration of "the ability of man to advance" past 500 kilometers (311 miles) in Antarctica, the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is located at the ...

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 ...

Most previous megabergs have broken up roughly near South Georgia, which is probably only a month or so away from the berg’s ...

"It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck," oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.

A23a broke off from Antarctica in August 1986. It was part of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf on the continent’s northwest side and had been home to a Soviet research station. (After the iceberg ...