"Average daily temperature in Antarctica is -58° F," reads a screenshot of the slide in an Oct. 1 Facebook post. "Last winter temp at the South Pole reached -106º F. To get any ice to melt ...

Antarctica's sea ice has melted so ... The reason is simple: Antarctic sea ice that always comes back after first melting has not returned. Vast regions of Antarctic coast are exposed that were ...

A pair of studies this week have shed new light on the melting of the Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica’s largest and most menacing stretches of ice. Often referred to as the “Doomsday ...

Meaning that even if all of humanity woke up tomorrow and decided to unite and tackle global warming and put in every effort they could, the melting of the West Antarctica ice shelves would still ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light ... can afford it. Melting ice in Antarctica could ...

Climate change is causing enormous amounts of ice to melt in West Antarctica. It's a huge driver of sea level rise worldwide. But the water is rising more quickly in some places than others.

Antarctica is losing about 136 billion tonnes of ice per year, with Greenland almost double that, at 267 billion tonnes, says NASA. These two ice sheets hold two thirds of the freshwater on Earth, and ...

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and stronger If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably ...

Antarctica’s ice shelves may be melting much faster than scientists previously anticipated — a phenomenon that could ultimately accelerate sea level rise, a new study has found. Researchers at ...

another sign that Antarctica is seeing changes because of the warming climate. Ice shelves can shrink either by melting, or through: calving—where large chunks of ice break away from the shelf ...

(via PBS Terra) If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, but new evidence suggests that West Antarctica - ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting ...