The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and snow, is facing a hidden danger: ocean currents. Its massive ice ...
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.
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study sheds new light on the ...
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.
Our new research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, explores how heat brought by El Niño can warm the ocean around West Antarctica and increase melting of the ice shelves from below.
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.