Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...
Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...
"Fast ice," also known as land-fast ice, is sea ice that remains attached to the coastline for at least 15 days, and in Antarctica, it plays a vital role. This type of ice shields the continent's ...
University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the ...
A pilot explained why commercial planes don't fly over Antarctica, the fifth largest continent on Earth. There's a lot of ...
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Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms ... The light arrows indicate the gradual decrease in ice thickness. With global warming, ice melt reduces this pressure. Simulations show that ...
Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting ...
An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
Iceberg A23a is massive, slightly smaller than Long Island. It is drifting slowly towards South Georgia Island and if it ...
Research, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, suggests that mass unloading due to melting of Antarctic ice sheets (isostatic rebound) is triggering eruptions of greater frequency ...