The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...

The study fills critical knowledge gaps. Scientists make ominous discovery about volcanoes beneath Antarctic ice sheet first appeared on The Cool Down.

Antarctica is melting, and crucial details are beginning ... For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces.

Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat ... For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces.

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic did not melt during the last interglacial event, suggesting it could ...

In one of the modeling scenarios, the team removed a 3,280-foot-thick ice sheet over the course of 300 years, which is considered moderate melting for West Antarctica, and found a significant ...

A hidden danger may exist beneath Antarctica that could accelerate ice melt, a new study says. Antarctica is not just a passive, icy landscape, but a geologically active region with a complex network ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 billion tons per year. And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of ...

The West Antarctic Rift System is home to over 130 ... “One such example is that eruptions proximate to surface ice will promote ice melting. In turn, the crustal unloading associated with ...

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common ... ice cores record several “interglacial” periods when the west Antarctic ice sheet was smaller than today,’ he told Metro.