The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest chunk of ice on Antarctica, at roughly the size of France. Scientists have known that ice streams have a tendency to lurch at least once a day with the tides ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

They would not rest until they had cached more than 4,000 pounds of provisions on the Ross Ice Shelf to supply Shackleton's polar trek. But they wouldn't learn the futility of their toil and agony ...

Antarctica's ice sheets are massive amounts of ice, kilometres thick, that sit on the continent's bedrock. As the ice sheets ...

In July 1911, it took Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers 19 days to travel from Cape Evans to the emperor ...

The legendary Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen started the journey that led him to being the first person to reach the South Pole from the Ross Ice Shelf. Similarly, the British explorers ...

A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are travelling on board the RRS James Clark Ross. Sea ice ... all the stops to get us to the ice shelf, but our progress became ...