Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with implications for global sea levels and climate modeling. New research ...

Hoping to collect data on the Southern Ocean’s Ross Sea, scientists deployed Marlin, an autonomous underwater vehicle, two ...

Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ...

most likely due to warming of the Ross Sea because of climate change. The study, "Ross Ice Shelf frontal zone subjected to increasing melting by ocean-surface waters," was published in Science ...

Kiwi climate researchers are part of an ambitious mission to recover critical geological records to help forecast future ...

became unintentionally trapped beneath the vast expanse of the Ross Ice Shelf. In December 2022, Marlin was launched out over ...

An accidental discovery by a glider under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf reveals decades of hidden ocean warming, accelerating ...

Scientists will camp on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds enough ice to raise sea levels by four to five ...

The glider’s unexpected journey allowed researchers to observe a 50-meter layer of warmer water entering the ice shelf cavity, which contributed to melting of the shelf’s underside. Analysis of ...

While in the Ross Sea, Protector visited the Antarctic research ... the first person to reach the South Pole from the Ross Ice Shelf. Similarly, the British explorers, Captain Robert Scott and ...