"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...
The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places on Earth.
For their new study, the researchers drilled and removed an ice core down to the level of bedrock ... DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08394-w Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial ...
Researchers have discovered numerous tiny ice quakes occurring deep within Greenland's ice streams. These quakes contribute ...
Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Scientists studying an ice core extracted from Antarctica, which had preserved the planet's climate history going back nearly 70,000 years, have discovered a link between ...
Embark on an unforgettable journey to the southernmost part of the Earth—Antarctica! In this hands-on course, we’ll explore the science that makes this frozen continent vital to our understanding of ...
The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...
Tiny ice quakes drive ice stream movement, reshaping our understanding of glacial flow and sea-level rise predictions.
The effective pressure under the Antarctic ice sheet describes how easily the ice flows atop ... clumping together into dense ...
“It's worth exploring if this is possible.” One approach would be to stop warm ocean water from flowing underneath the Antarctic ice shelves using giant curtains or submarine seawalls to hold it back.