The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and snow, is facing a hidden danger: ocean currents. Its massive ice ...
In late February and early March, two record melt events for that time of year occurred on the Antarctic Peninsula. Overall, ...
Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves.
Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting up to 40% faster than we thought, study warns Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting up to 40 per cent faster than we thought due to coastal ocean ...
A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the interplay between meandering ocean currents and the ...
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 ... miles of ice shelves — like a straw ...
Ocean currents are playing a large part in collapsing Antarctic ice shelves ... melting the ice sheets. The phenomenon is causing rising sea levels, especially in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.
In Antarctica, heavy glaciers are always on the move. Conveyor belts of ice, known as ice streams, are the corridors of faster flow that ... interactions between ice shelves and ice streams ...
A University of Alabama associate professor of geological sciences is part of a seven-year project dedicated to researching a ...
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.