Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was ...

As the Washington Post reports, researchers aboard the vessel Falkor (too) found an unexpected marine ecosystem beneath a ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series with a talk by Richard B.

Scientists have recently uncovered a wondrous and vibrant underwater world, previously hidden beneath a massive glacier in Antarctica. The glacier, covering an area of about 510 sq.km. — roughly ...

"We didn't expect to find such a beautiful, thriving ecosystem." Very little is currently known about what lives on the Antarctic seabed below thick chunks of floating ice. Without sunlight or raining ...

SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING. FAST. THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE. IT’S OUTSTRIPPED THE GENERAL WARMING OF ...

the effects of meltwater from Antarctic ice and an underestimation of regional rainfall. “We found that the Southern Ocean cooling trend is actually a response to global warming, which accelerates ice ...

An ice shelf twenty times as large as the island of Manhattan, called the Conger ice shelf, had suddenly fragmented into icebergs and floated away. The Antarctic ... When they collapse, a ...

the British Antarctic Survey, and Chile’s Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH). While the study focused on a single location, researchers suspect that similar algal ecosystems may exist elsewhere on ...

Credit: Ehrenfeucht et al. [2025], Figure 2 The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a significant factor in determining the rate of future sea level rise due to global warming. Yet, our ...