Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study from Australian scientists reveals that melting Antarctic ice shelves and shifting sea ice near Cape Darnley can ...

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Recent efforts using computational modeling to understand how melting ice in Antarctica will impact the planet's oceans have focused on ice-sheet geometry, fracture, and surface melting—processes that ...

Ching-Yao Lai, an assistant professor of geophysics at Stanford University, works to advance scientific understanding of ice ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans would be unrecognizable within hours. The scenario is wildly unrealistic, but ...

Integration of proxy records with ocean–climate modeling reveals that early Holocene ice-shelf retreat in East Antarctica was driven by oceanic forcing enhanced by meltwater discharge from neighboring ...

Grounded ice rests on the bedrock of the Antarctic continent, while ice shelves float above the rock on a pool of seawater.

Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed by research from the University of Gothenburg. Antarctic sea ice plays a ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...