The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and snow, is facing a hidden danger: ocean currents. Its massive ice ...
Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, ... Antarctica ice shelves melting faster than estimated Sunday, April 5th 2009 - 06:14 UTC Full ...
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
Antarctica's biggest ice shelf is on the move and could trigger icequakes, a new study warns. Researchers found that the Ross Ice Shelf – a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles ...
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.
A massive vortex of ocean water encircling Antarctica, a swirling volume 100-times larger than all the world's rivers combined, is getting faster due to climate change. At least, that's the ...
In Antarctica, heavy glaciers are always on the move. Conveyor belts of ice, known as ice streams, are the corridors of faster flow that carry most of the vast glaciers' ice and sediment debris ...
Ocean currents are playing a large part in collapsing Antarctic ice shelves, a new study has revealed. Meandering currents and the ocean floor cause a welling up of warm water to shallower depths ...
The deadliest hurricane ever to hit America made landfall over Galveston, Texas, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, on September 8th 1900. Terrified inhabitants watched a 4.5-metre-high wall ...
A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the interplay between meandering ocean currents and the ...