Antarctica’s Thinning Ice Shelves Causing More Ice to Flow Into Sea
New study provides the first evidence that thinning ice shelves around Antarctica are causing more ice to move from the land into the sea. A…
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GOCE Gravity Mapper Reveals What’s Going on Deep Below Antarctica
Despite having completed its mission in orbit over six years ago, ESA’s GOCE gravity mapper continues to yield new insights into our planet. Thanks to…
High-Precision Map Shows What the Land Looks Like Under Antarctica’s Ice Sheet
University of California, Irvine-led team releases high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography. New findings will help scientists predict climate change impact on frozen…
Extreme Atmospheric Chemistry: Barrels of Ancient Antarctic Air Aim to Track History of Rare Gas
Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica’s snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth’s atmosphere over…
First Direct Observations of Ancient Climate From Two Million-Year-Old Antarctic Ice Cores
Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the…
Emperor Penguins Marching Towards Extinction Unless Warming Is Slowed
Emperor penguins are some of the most striking and charismatic animals on Earth, but a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has…
Analyzing the Risk of Catastrophic Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse From Surface Melting
There’s a speed limit on the damage surface ponds can do to ice shelves, but that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. Dangers to ancient Antarctic…
Sea-Level Rise From Antarctic Ice Cliffs May Be Overestimated Because of Faulty Assumptions
Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing catastrophically. Antarctica’s ice sheet spans close to twice the area…
Upside-Down “Rivers” of Warm Ocean Water Attacking Antarctic Ice Shelves [Video]
Newly understood factors make ice shelves more vulnerable to breakup according to College of Wooster, University of Colorado at Boulder study. According to a recent…
Emperor Penguins Are Threatened – Study Recommends Special Protection
In a new study published yesterday (October 8, 2019) in the journal Biological Conservation, an international team of researchers recommends the need for additional measures…
Antarctic Glaciers Slipping Faster Towards the Ocean Due to Surface Melting
Study shows for the first time a direct link between surface melting and short bursts of glacier acceleration in Antarctica During these events, Antarctic Peninsula…
Weathering Antarctic Storms and the Importance of Weather Balloon Data
Observational data from radiosondes deployed in Antarctica improve the forecasting accuracy for severe Antarctic cyclones, according to a Japanese research team led by the Kitami…
First Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Change Melting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
A new study published this week reveals the first evidence of a direct link between human-induced global warming and melting of the West Antarctic Ice…
New Discovery Signals Rapid Decay in Antarctic Glacier
A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in…
Scientists Discover Bits of the Solar System in an Antarctic Glacier
On rare calm days, the most striking thing you notice at an altitude of more than 8,000 feet on an Antarctic glacier is the silence….
New Research Details the Net Retreat of Antarctic Glacier Grounding Lines
Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found….
New NASA Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus
A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow…
Operation IceBridge Spots the Bluest of Ice
Acquired on November 29 by Operation IceBridge during a flight to Victoria Land, this image shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound. The part…
