Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.

The result of Marlin’s unplanned observations was major for researchers at the UK-based University of East Anglia. For the ...

Scientists will camp on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds enough ice to raise sea levels by four to five ...

Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with implications for global sea levels and climate modeling. New research ...

A rare form of ice known as "dragon skin" or "dragon scale" ice was spotted in Antarctica in late April 2017 by a researcher from the University of Tasmania. Doctor Guy Williams, one of 27 ...

The study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf reveals that one area is melting due to relatively warm ocean water getting into a cavity under the shelf. The findings have implications for future sea ...

Microbes turn the underside of the sea ice brown or ... protected area under the ice. Some emit a distinctive seaweed-like odor. New experiments reveal how these algae, the base of the food ...

Hall, B. L. & Denton, G. H. Radiocarbon chronology of Ross Sea drift, Eastern Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Evidence for a grounded ice sheet in the Ross Sea at the last glacial maximum. Geografiska ...

Those images are what the brave explorers of the Ross Sea Antarctic Expedition experienced ... as well because the planes ...

Within 24 hours of arriving in the Ross Sea, the ice patrol ship had carried out the first of several CCAMLR inspections with six embarked Australian and New Zealand specialists to support.