Approximately 0.3% of Antarctica is perpetually ice free ... and the subsurface interstices of coarse crystalline rock types (endoliths). Climate warming and cooling have both contributed to ...

Within almost four decades, the Antarctic Peninsula has seen the amount of greenery increase by over 1,000 per cent - with mosses being the type of greenery ... ice and rock, with only a tiny ...

Here's what it shows. "In general, it's become clear the Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker than we originally realized and has a larger volume of ice that is grounded on a rock bed sitting below sea ...

Imagine pouring syrup over a rock cake – all the lumps, all the bumps, will determine where the syrup goes and how fast. And so it is with Antarctica: some ridges will hold up the flowing ice ...