“Microplastics are particles ranging from one micron to five millimetres in size. Most research is done on larger fragments, while we focused on extremely small materials, starting from 20 microns,” ...

This newly observed subglacial river, which surges roughly once a decade, challenges long-standing assumptions about how meltwater drains beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. The discovery offers critical ...

Just a few years ago, scientists found an estimated 60 million ice fish nesting beneath the Antarctic ice ... in a statement. An illustration of Antarctica without ice to explore its underlying ...

That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and environments tucked inside and underneath the ...

Martinson) In the meantime, while the unexpected, decades-long overall increases in Antarctic sea ice extent are still being puzzled out, the sea ice extent has taken a dramatic turn from relatively ...

A surprising surge in snowfall from 2021 to 2023 caused Antarctica to gain record amounts of ice, reversing 20 years of steady melting. This slowed global sea level rise by nearly 15% and sparked ...

Heat in the oceans and atmosphere is also driving melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which together hold enough fresh water to raise global sea levels by around 213 feet.

And, a new study warns of a sinister threat buried deep beneath the melting ice - one that may cause a feedback loop that speeds up the melt of the already precarious West Antarctic ice sheet. S ...

The research, led by Dr. Wei Wang and Prof. Yunzhong Shen at Tongji University, relied on satellite gravimetry data from NASA’s GRACE and GRACE-FO missions, which revealed that the Antarctic Ice Sheet ...

The paper takes advantage of very precise measurements of Antarctic ice mass from a series of NASA satellites called GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). Since the first GRACE ...

However, Antarctica gained ice during 2021 and 2023. The gain was noted mainly in four East Antarctic glacier basins — Totten, Moscow, Denman, and Vincennes Bay. Before the reported ice gains, these ...