The ice along Antarctica’s ‘grounding lines’ has been largely stable over the past 30 years – but ice has retreated by more than 40 km in some areas, a new […]
West Antarctica
Ice World Expedition: Drilling Through Thwaites Glacier In West Antarctica
A team of researchers from the UK and Korea has reached the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica where they will drill through the glacier […]
Ice World Orbital Recon: Increased Plant Cover On Earth’s Antarctic Peninsula
The white, monochromatic vistas of Antarctica, a continent practically synonymous with ice, are becoming more verdant—at least around some of its edges. According to an analysis of 35 years of […]
Iceworld Update: Grim Outlook For Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet continues to retreat as a UK-US group of scientists reveal new findings about how and when it might suddenly move towards collapse.
Ice Planet Update: Mysterious Patterns Revealed Under An Antarctic Ice Shelf
An international research team deployed the uncrewed submersible ‘Ran’ underneath 350 m thick ice. They got back the very first detailed maps of the underside of a glacier, revealing clues […]
