Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

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Data processed by Paul Quast. O.V.E.R.V.I.E.W. via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, could dramatically raise sea levels.

“And so the fact that warm water can reach this glacier is a sign that East Antarctica is potentially more vulnerable to changes in the ocean driven by climate change than we used to think.

Caption View down an ultra-clean hot water borehole drilled into Mercer Subglacial Lake, a freshwater lake located more than 1000 metres beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The lake is hydrologically ...

The director of Russia's Antarctic program, Valery Lukin said that drilling at ... ice to the lake's surface before the summer ended. The goal of the drilling is to remove lake water samples ...