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Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...
In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) ...
Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...
A massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier buried much of the Swiss village of Blatten under ice, mud and rocks. The even was equivalent in force to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake, ...
The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...
An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...
Scientists studying glaciers in West Antarctica observed a strange phenomenon dubbed "ice piracy." This occurs when one ...