Beneath Antarctica's largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the ...

From Seal Meat to Ice Sheets: A Century of Reporting From Antarctica

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...
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Mysterious Ocean Beneath Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf Stuns Scientists with Rare Insights

Four-year record of ocean processes beneath the Ross Ice Shelf suggests water quality varies throughout the year within the cavity.

The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea. This hidden ocean matters because it is the ice ...
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Time-lapse of radar images shows how the Antarctic ice shelf collapses

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...
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Scientists Warn Ocean Melting is Worsening Antarctic Ice Loss — May Push Sea Levels by 15 Meters

Scientists say that hidden melting beneath Antarctica’s ice could rapidly reshape sea levels, but they do not know when.
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Researchers issue warning on concerning phenomenon discovered in Antarctica: 'A one–two punch on the system'

The study challenges a long-held assumption. Researchers issue warning on concerning phenomenon discovered in Antarctica: 'A ...

China's Fengyun-3D Satellite Finds World's Largest Iceberg A23a In Final Stage Of Disintegration

A23a, once the world's largest iceberg by area, broke away from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986.

A huge iceberg becomes a deadly trap for penguins

A massive iceberg has triggered a catastrophic die-off of Emperor Penguin chicks in Antarctica, blocking thousands of parents ...
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Scripps Scientists in Antarctica Studying Retreating Glaciers, Cancer-Fighting Microbes and More

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Breaking Records in the Frozen South

A record-breaking drilling has recently been completed in Antarctica at the Crary Ice Rise site, a remote camp set up on the ice 700 kilometers away from the nearest base, the New Zealand ...