To document climate change, researchers haven't just studied one system in one part of the world, such as sea ice in Antarctica. Instead, scientists have documented long-term changes in many ...
By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...
The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.
This ice wall is not imaginary ... but this is the case everywhere, not just in Antarctica. The claim about "pitch darkness" in Antarctica is also misleading. While there are times during the ...
Yet the ocean processes that control basal melting, and the fate of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, occur on the scale of millimetres. They happen in a thin layer of ocean, just beneath the ice.