Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an “unavoidable” melt, a new study has found. British Antarctic ...

More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off ... feedback could continue even if the world curtails anthropogenic warming.

Several research groups around the world have taken on this problem, modeling the micro-scale ocean flow that supplies heat to the ice for melting ... ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous ...

Buried under kilometres of frost are some 100 volcanoes in Antarctica, with only a few peaking above the ice sheets along the western coast. But the ice at the bottom of the world is melting ...

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 ...

So when a new study suggests that climate change could accelerate volcanism in Antarctica ... of the most volcanically active areas of the world, WARS is home to more than an estimated 130 ...

Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat of the ice sheet in some regions, raising global sea levels . Ice shelves in Antarctica ... groups around the world have taken on ...