Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to levels 30% below the ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

On Friday, NASA released an astonishing new image ... Larsen B Ice Shelf after its breakup in 2002. Credit: nasa The Larsen C Ice Shelf is the most northerly of the remaining major Antarctic ...

Researchers believe the deep-sea ecosystem has been thriving for decades possibly even centuries based on the size of the ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

The ice covering the newly discovered ecosystem belonged to the George VI Ice Shelf, a vast ice shelf "trapped" between the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island. Earlier this year, a piece of ice ...

Arctic winter sea ice reached its lowest extent on record at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, while global ice coverage also hit a record low in mid-February. On March 22, 2025, Arctic sea ice ...

In 2016, the extent of sea ice in Antarctica dropped abruptly. Prior to this, the ice had been stable and slightly increasing. The loss of Antarctic ...

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have said that Arctic sea ice most likely reached its yearly ...

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined ...