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Year 5 pupils in Irvinestown Primary School had an ‘ice’ time when they took part in a live video call to Antarctica recently. The pupils spoke with some of the crew of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, ...

Blue puddles of water were visible atop the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica after periods of record melting. Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive ... But research has shown, Wouters ...

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica ... ice shelf, making it more vulnerable to breaking apart. The pictured meltwater pools formed after an intense melt event in ...

This phenomenon, already observed in Iceland, could repeat on a much larger scale in Antarctica. Ice melt not only releases magma but also the gases dissolved within it. Like opening a soda bottle, ...

Why is a remote glacier in Antarctica that contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 1.5 metres melting twice as ... wide and at least 3.5km deep, making it one of the deepest places ...

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

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The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise ...

The existence of melt regimes helps explain the evolution of steep-sided terraces, or why different features appear in distinct parts of an ice shelf. For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of ...