Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hektoria glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula. (CREDIT: Naomi Ochwat) A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal. The ...

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before. A study Friday shows the ice shelf has shrunk by one-fifth ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

(CNN) — An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...