Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

Immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm after two children were left behind when their father was reportedly detained by ICE agents in ... detained at a gas station in Ventura County ...

was founded in 1997 as a permanent research station on Antarctica — designed specifically to withstand the punishing conditions for decades. It’s built on the side of a massive ice cliff so ...

To serve as camp doctor at what he was told was a polar research station dug about 26.2 ... Polar research stations today are typically built on top of the ice rather than hollowed out underneath.

Concern has been raised about the modifying lake areas in the Antarctic Peninsula, where the collapse of Boeckella Lake could be the first case recorded in ice-free areas of Antarctica ... On March 24 ...

It was only by chance that Walker noticed its collapse in 2022. While perusing satellite images to examine another nearby ice shelf, she noticed that the 1,200-square-kilometer Conger ice shelf ...