Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously ... Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves. Seven such ice shelves ...

5, 2025 — Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting ... Sea Level Forecasts Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire ...

On March 1, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent of 1.98 million square kilometers (764,000 square miles), tying for second lowest extent with 2022 and 2024 in the 47-year satellite ...

PARIS: Global sea ice cover hit a historic ... marking the third consecutive monthly record. In the Antarctic, where it is now summer and the ice is melting, the frozen cover was 26 percent ...

In contrast, Antarctic ... sea ice is its contribution to what scientists refer to as ice-albedo feedback. Ice naturally reflects sunlight, helping to cool the planet's surface. However, as ice ...

Combined Antarctic and Arctic sea ice cover -- ocean ... "One of the consequences of a warmer world is melting sea ice, and the record or near-record low sea ice cover at both poles has pushed ...

Daily global sea ice extent, which combines the sea ice extents in both polar regions (North Pole-Arctic region and South Pole-Antarctic region) reached a new all-time minimum in early February ...

Other monthly images show sea ice concentration and anomalies and trends in concentration. The monthly extent images show the expanse covered by ice at greater than 15 percent monthly mean ...