Advanced submarine makes disturbing discovery in unchartered waters, then suddenly vanishes
The vehicle’s mission yielded key findings on glacial melt and deep currents before it disappeared under mysterious ...
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Submarine mysteriously disappears while conducting research in Antarctica
It's been a year since the underwater vehicle Ran vanished beneath a glacier in Antarctica. Owned by the University of Gothenburg, it is one of only three of ...
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How is the ocean melting Antarctica? We're starting to figure it out
Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...
The giant glacier threatening to raise sea levels
The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...
Antarctica: World's Largest Iceberg A23a Drifts In Atlantic; Likely To Hit British Island South Georgia
For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice. The ...
The Antarctic mystery threatening sea levels — and the Australians trying to solve it
A team of Australian scientists are at the forefront of a groundbreaking mission to solve one of the planet's most pressing ...
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'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves
FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental shelf that rings the coast of Antarctica in the Weddell Sea. However, in the summer, warmer water ...
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How is Antarctica melting, exactly? Crucial details are beginning to come into focus
The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend ... Recently, ocean robots, including autonomous underwater vehicles and tethered probes deployed by drilling through the ice ...