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The clip shows a group of seven orcas — four adults and three calves — as they circle a seal on a tiny chunk of ice in ...

Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 billion tons per year. And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of ...

British Scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of western Antarctica. If the trend continues it could lead to a ...

Schematic map of separate volcanoes and volcanic provinces in Western Antarctica position. Picture: Vries et al., 2017 “The crustal unloading associated with melting an ice sheet affects the ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.