Antarctica’s “point of no return”: Scientists warn the meltdown may be unstoppable

Antarctica has long been seen as Earth’s frozen shield, vast, remote, and seemingly unbreakable. Yet scientists are now ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Retrieve the Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica’s Ice. It Holds ...

Researchers are looking into our planet’s past to understand its future. Just like archaeologists investigate layers of dirt for ancient artifacts, geologists analyze layers in cores—tube-shaped ...
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The Antarctic ice sheet may have once been an open ocean, here’s what scientists found

Researchers have drilled deeper than ever before beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, uncovering evidence that the region was once part of an open ocean. The research team hopes that analyzing the ...

Glaciers may flow into the ocean more quickly than we think

Models of glacial flow and retreat rely on estimates of glacial ice viscosity, the measure of the ice's resistance to flow.
Science Daily

Melting Antarctic ice may weaken a major carbon sink

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...
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UB scientists selected for NASA satellite mission to map Earth’s ice sheets and ecosystems

UB scientists Sophie Nowicki and Beata Csatho are part of an international team chosen for a NASA satellite mission designed to improve predictions of environmental change and help mitigate natural ...