"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the ...

All it took for the Conger-Glenzer ice shelf in Antarctica to collapse was just a few days which, in the world of science, is an unusual phenomenon. Scientists then used satellite imagery to chronicle ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Antarctica’s vast ice sheet, holding over half of Earth’s freshwater, plays a critical role in regulating the planet’s climate and sea levels. The continent’s ice shelves, large floating extensions of ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...