In 2023, the area of Antarctic winter sea ice was a record 1.55 million square kilometres below the expected average extent.

This graph shows Antarctic annual sea ice minimum extent, depicted as black diamonds, from 1979 to 2023, based on a 5-day running average of daily extent. In 2023 a new minimum extent was reached.

Rock-hunters with the British Antarctic Survey cut through 870 metres of ice to get to the water far below, then tried to plunge a drill into the seafloor when they struck a boulder instead.

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed, revealing ...

21:54, Sat, Jun 14, 2025 Updated: 21:59, Sat, Jun 14, 2025 An ancient lost world hidden for more than 34 million years has been discovered below a mile of ice in Antarctica. Using satellite data ...

If all the ice sheets were to melt due to global warming, Antarctica would raise global sea levels by at least 183ft (56m). Given their size, even small losses in the ice sheets could have global ...

Lost world discovered beneath ice in Antarctica after 34,000,000 years Sara Odeen-Isbister Published June 13, 2025 2:20pm Updated June 13, 2025 2:20pm Comments ...

Some of the water around Antarctica has been getting saltier. And that has affected the amount of sea ice at the bottom of the planet. A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change, say the scientists behind the project. The map, called ...

Scientists have stumbled upon sea life far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic - in a discovery which shows how creatures have "amazingly adapted" to a frozen world, according to a study.