The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...
Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar ...
When glaciers melt, they expose more than just ancient landscapes. Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lies a fiery ...
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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 ...
The claim: Polar sea ice extents show climate change is a 'scam' A Dec. 23, 2024, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, with color coding that ...
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They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves ... and the fate of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, occur on the scale of millimetres. They happen in a thin layer of ocean, just beneath ...
By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...