Intensifying Winds Could Increase East Antarcticas Contribution to Sea Level...
Totten Glacier is the largest glacier in East Antarctica. Scientists are concerned that if Totten loses enough mass it could destabilize the rest of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. UT Austin/University...
View ArticleEast Antarctic Ice Sheet Has History of Instability
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet locks away enough water to raise sea level an estimated 53 meters (174 feet), more than any other ice sheet on the planet. It’s also thought to be among the most stable,...
View ArticleMassive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet locks away enough water to raise sea level an estimated 53 meters (174 feet), more than any other ice sheet on the planet. It's also thought to be among the most stable,...
View ArticleThe glacier in Basin 3, Austfonna Ice-cap, Svalbard, is moving faster than...
Image of Yongmei Gong working by Solveig Havstad Winsvold. read more
View Article"Whale Cam" Attached to Minke in a World-first
For the first time ever, scientists in Antarctica have attached a camera to a minke – one of the most poorly understood of all the whale species. read more
View ArticleA promising target in the quest for a 1-million-year-old Antarctic ice core
Ice cores offer a window into the history of Earth’s climate. Layers of ice reveal past temperatures, and gases trapped in bubbles reveal past atmospheric composition. The oldest continuous ice core so...
View ArticleDefining a Pan-Genome for Antarctic Archaea
Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial...
View ArticleColdest place on Earth is colder than scientists thought
WASHINGTON — Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica’s ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly minus 100 degrees Celsius (minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter, a new study finds. The results...
View ArticleKrill Fishing Companies Agree to No-Take Zones in the Antarctic
Antarctic krill form the base of the Southern Ocean food web. read more
View ArticleGlaciers in East Antarctica also imperiled by climate change, researchers find
WASHINGTON — A team of scientists has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet)...
View ArticleVolcano under ice sheet suggests thickening of West Antarctic ice is short-term
A topographic map of the rock surface below the glacier. The brown peak is the inactive volcano, Mount Resnik. The blue bar shows the missing layers, also known as an unconformity, that travels in a...
View ArticleTasmanian 'devil in disguise' is key puzzle piece for understanding...
A new paper recently released in Geology by researchers Jacob Mulder, Karl Karlstrom, and other Australian colleagues provides a new dataset that may resolve the more than three decades-long debate...
View ArticleUW glaciologist gets first look at NASAs new measurements of ice sheet elevation
The horizontal blue line is the travel path for ICESat-2. The lower line shows some of its first measurements. This satellite can capture steep terrain and measure elevation much more precisely than...
View ArticleEast Antarcticas Denman Glacier has retreated almost 3 miles in 22 years
Researchers are concerned that the unique topography beneath East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier could make it even more susceptible to climate-driven collapse.read more
View ArticleSouthern Ocean Research Expedition Goes Full Steam Ahead Despite Pandemic
Important krill research will be the focus of a team of scientists heading to East Antarctica on the research vessel Investigator.read more
View ArticleNewly Discovered Lake May Hold Secret to Antarctic Ice Sheets Rise and Fall
Lake Snow Eagle lies in a canyon in East Antarctica covered by a miles-thick ice sheet. The lake was discovered by a research team led by The University of Texas at Austin using ice penetrating radar...
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