Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before — underneath massive ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

Ancient Antarctic Bottom Water expansion triggered carbon release and ended the last Ice Age, offering critical insight into ...