These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater peppered across the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. This melting comes despite ...

The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal melting ... calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces.

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and stronger If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably ...