A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

Meltwater is stored in supra-glacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Connections between the melt water, ice sheet dynamics and the extent of the surface hydrological system have been observed. This ...

The curious minds at What If uncover the chilling dangers of falling into a hidden, ice-covered Antarctic lake.

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

Understanding the stability of the early Antarctic ice cap in the geological past is of societal interest because present-day atmospheric CO 2 concentrations have reached values comparable to those ...

Subglacial lakes are an important part of the Antarctic basal hydrological system, with many active subglacial lakes distributed in the steep topography of east ... Using this improved method, we ...

In a recent expedition, researchers drilled more than 1,600 feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and discovered a subglacial river flowing beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, per Earth.com. The river, about ...

Hidden beneath more than 2 kilometres of Antarctic ice lies an ancient landscape that has remained virtually untouched for over 34 million years. A new study led by Durham University researcher ...