University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the ...

The Interannual Variability of Antarctic Fast‐Ice Thickness in McMurdo Sound and Connections to Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 2024; 129 (12) DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020134 Cite ...

Arctic sea-ice is currently at its smallest recorded extent for the time of year, while Antarctic sea-ice is close to a new ...

The effective pressure under the Antarctic ice sheet describes how easily the ice flows atop the layer of water separating ...

A team from the Polar Engineering Research Group at UCT has set off on their first field expedition to Antarctica.

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years ...

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate, the ocean also influences this alarming process, potentially leading to ...

On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...

Credit: UK MOD Crown copyright/Cover Images A group of British scientists have photographed and filmed the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, after it began to move again after almost four decades stuck ...

A pilot has deconstructed the mystery around why airplanes avoid flights over Antartica – and the reasoning may surprise you. Here's everything you need to know ...

Loading Melt is how much thickness is lost from the base, while flow is how fast the ice is moving downstream. Both melt and faster flow would contribute to sea level rises. Australian Antarctic ...