A Jan. 31 Facebook post features a link to a 2015 NASA press release announcing research that concluded the Antarctic ice sheet gained ice between 1992 and 2008.

Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world’s largest ice sheet over the ...

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead to 11 feet of sea-level rise, according to scientists who study Antarctica ...

The 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf in Antarctica is scored with cracks where icebergs are likely to break off, or calve, in this 2016 photo. The first estimate of ...

The historic NISAR mission will offer fresh insights into our planet’s changing face, from glaciers to forests.

Item 1 of 2 An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image.

Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 19, 2023, making it the sixth-lowest year in the satellite record, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice ...

Antarctic sea ice has declined rapidly since 2014, after almost four decades of growth, according to a new study that looked at 40 years of satellite data.

These pools may weaken the ice shelf if the water leaks through fissures into the ice. NASA Earth Observatory ... (2018). Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017. Nature, 558 ...

Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...

NASA Earth Observatory maps by Michala Garrison, based on data from Roland, T.P., et al. 2024. ... Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017.