Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n4/full/ngeo2388.html Totten Glacier, the primary outlet of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, has the largest
UC Irvine professor Eric Rignot is featured in this Emmy-winning HBO series VICE where he discusses his findings of Antarctica’s melting ice sheets and the
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways. Visit http://science.nasa.gov/
Seriously, the tourism in Antarctica has to stop, it is ruining the environment there. So please don’t go there. Maybe just go to Alaska. Who
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, 28 Mai 2014: Der Antarktische Eisschild hat zum Ende der letzten Eiszeit in kurzer Zeit sehr viel Eis verloren und damit den Meeresspiegel weltweit rasant
By Laura Naranjo (NSIDC), first published January 31, 2014. In the following an edited version, reposted here with permission.Antarctic sea ice is ruled by very different
An Australian-led research team found that sea levels may rise much faster than previously predicted by models, because changes by disruptive westerly winds, weren’t taken
NASA/JPL press release, May 12, 2014: A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the
By FishOutOfWater (DailyKos): The largest source of the coldest water in the world’s oceans ceased producing Antarctic Bottom Water in 1976. The surface water around
