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Antarctic ice sheet

Three crew members are shown in a room with a green floor all leaning in order to stay balanced.

Antarctica Dispatch 2: Crossing the Drake Passage

Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier

The World’s Carolyn Beeler crossed the passage armed with tips on how to prevent seasickness — and about a pound of ginger — and sent back her second dispatch from the trip.

Researchers Scott Landolt and Mark Seefeldt set up an automatic snowfall measuring system in Antarctica.

An unexpected challenge on Antarctica: Measuring snowfall

Snow is blown off of the calving front off of Thurston Island in western Antarctica in this photo, taken in November 2014. New findings show the western side of Antarctica to be more vulnerable to warming oceans — and increased ice loss — than first thoug

A scientist’s response to Antarctic ice loss: ‘We can act.’

A new report confirms that Antarctica is melting–still slowly, but twice as fast as four years ago

Environment

Antarctica is sending the equivalent of 9.8 quadrillion ice cubes into the oceans each year

Global Scan
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