The Apostle Islands ice caves are officially closed after the winter storm this week broke up the ice shelf. It's unlikely ...

The National Park Service describes an ice shelf as an unstable formation that builds from the beach out to the lake, without ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest ice shelf in Antarctica is slipping — a first-of-its-kind discovery related to our warming world. The shelf can move ...

In A Nutshell The Antarctic Peninsula is already warming faster than the global average, having exceeded 1.5°C of regional ...

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean.

Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf collapse. When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice ...

Two papers published in Nature Geoscience in June indicate that Antarctic ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously anticipated. The papers detail two distinct mechanisms for melting that ...

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models. Researchers led ...