Earth's ice is melting. As icebergs break away from glaciers and melt away, the fresh meltwater mixes into its saltwater ...

The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course for the island of South Georgia, raising concerns for the British Overseas Territory's wildlife populations. According to the BBC, iceberg A23a is ...

Rising temperatures of the world's oceans threaten to accelerate the melting and splintering of glaciers—thereby potentially increasing the number of icebergs and, with it, the need to better ...

For the first time, scientists have collected measurements close to a giant iceberg, giving an unprecedented window into the impact of meltwater on the surrounding Southern Ocean and ecosystem. The ...

When I think about the Arctic, I picture frigid waters filled with narwhals, polar bears and icebergs. I asked my friend Von Walden how those icebergs got there. He’s a polar scientist at Washington ...

Once a towering giant of Antarctic ice, Iceberg A-23A is now riddled with pools of vivid blue meltwater as it drifts through the South Atlantic. Scientists say these watery blues are a sign that one ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...