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

NASA's SWOT satellite revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents, and tectonics. From ...

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

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering an ancient ecosystem hidden beneath the ice for thousands, possibly millions, of years. This revelation offers a rare glimpse ...

Hidden Antarctic lakes could supercharge sea level rise. Subglacial water may boost sea levels by over 2 meters by 2300. The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds around 90 percent of all ice on Earth.

In the past two decades, these efforts have revealed over 140 active Antarctic subglacial lakes. But there are still large areas about which little is known. In this study, the researchers used ...

The Qilin Subglacial Lake, which was named by China in 2022, is located in the Princess Elizabeth Land in the East Antarctic inland ice sheet, 120 km from China's Taishan station, according to ...

Venturelli and Rosenheim retrieved the samples from Mercer Lake, a few hundred miles from the South Pole, as part of a 25-member team on the historic, NSF-funded expedition called Subglacial Antarctic ...

Subglacial lakes that never see the light of day are among the least accessible frontiers of science, brimming with more tales yet untold than even the planets of our solar system. One thing seems ...

Since the discovery 50 years ago of subglacial lakes in Antarctica—some of the least accessible geological features on Earth—scientists have attempted to extract lake bed sediment to learn about the ...

The 773 lakes catalogued in the inventory include 59 which have been newly identified in Antarctica - some of which measure up to six miles in length and are under 3,000 metres of ice. The paper ...