Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

A view of Shoesmith Glacier on Horseshoe Island in Antarctica, which is shrinking by 3 centimeters per day. —Sebnem Coskun—Getty Images Deep ocean heat is moving closer to Antarctica, a new ...

Warm ocean water is moving closer to Antarctica, raising concerns that ice shelves could melt from below and accelerate sea level rise.

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

A new decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the fragile ice shelves that fringe the continent.

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

Antarctica is melting from below as deep ocean heat marches closer to the continent's fragile ice shelves, a study has warned. In a decades–long study, scientists measured the movement of a mass ...

Deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica — threatening catastrophic sea level rises, reveals new research. The decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that warmer ...

A new decades-long study of oceanographic conditions provides new evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the ice shelves that fringe the continent. Researchers at UC ...

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward Antarctica.