Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The core ... principal investigator in the field and joint professor at Göttingen University and the ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

More than two hundred days of successful drilling and ice core processing operations occurred across four field seasons, and in the harsh environment of the central Antarctic plateau. At an ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...

a total of more than 200 days of successful drilling and ice core processing operations across four field seasons in the harsh environment of the central Antarctic plateau at an altitude of 3,200 ...

The "Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice" project, funded by the European Commission, achieved a historic milestone for climate science on its fourth Antarctic campaign. The European teams in the field ...

Since then the research team has scoured other databases, herbaria, field research notes ... Dr. Terauds said ice-free areas make up about 0.4% of Antarctica and include coastal oases, cliffs ...