Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

Antarctica’s ice shelves are rapidly thinning due to warm water flowing beneath them, a process accelerated by decreasing sea ...

Of the five major extinctions in the planet’s history (leaving out the current mass extinction for now), four of ... proximate to surface ice will promote ice melting. In turn, the crustal ...

Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages ...

Millions of tonnes of ice have been keeping the lid on Antarctica’s volcanoes for millennia. Now it’s melting. Fast. And ...

Melting ice may cause dozens of volcanoes beneath Antarctica's colossal ice sheet ... with further volcanic eruptions as a result. This would then produce heat that only exacerbates the speed ...

Of the five major extinctions in the planet’s history (leaving out the current mass extinction for now), four of them were caused ... example is that eruptions proximate to surface ice will promote ...

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica ... If that is the case, then a dramatic decline in sea ice could cause the shelf to melt. "If the warm water reaches underneath the ice shelf ...

Millions of tonnes of ice have been keeping the lid on Antarctica’s volcanoes for millennia. Now it’s melting fast ... these gases may then vent through fissures in the volcano’s chambers ...

As the ice sheets melt ... ice sheets of the Antarctica are several kilometres thick, acting like a lid for the magma oozing underneath (Picture: Getty Images) Right now, the weight of all ...