Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice lies a system of lakes and watercourses. A research team, including ETH researchers, has for the first time directly observed the subglacial streams of West ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are among the leaders of a major Antarctic research project in which scientists will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden ...

More information: Heather L. Selley et al, Speed-up, slowdown, and redirection of ice flow on neighbouring ice streams in the Pope, Smith, and Kohler region of West Antarctica, The Cryosphere ...

A fast-moving Antarctic glacier has been observed by satellites to be stealing ice from a neighbor. Glaciologists were aware this could occur, but thought it took centuries or millennia.

"West Antarctica is unlikely to catastrophically lose all its ice in tens of years," she told the Guardian. "It could unfold ...

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02366-2 Cite This Page : ...

Fortunately, even though West Antarctica now seems to be one of the fast warming spots on the planet, it’s still very, very, very cold, so the melting that’s happening today remains minimal.

West Antarctica, home to one of Earth's largest ice sheets, sits atop a volcanic hotspot known as the West Antarctic Rift. This region contains over 100 volcanic centers—many hidden beneath ice ...

(via PBS Terra) If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, but new evidence suggests that West Antarctica - ...

From 2021 to 2023, ice mass in East Antarctica particularly showed signs of recovery. However, scientists still say it may not signal a long-term trend.

A West Antarctic ice shelf, splitting around a pinning point at its calving front. view more . Credit: Pierre Dutrieux. ... the ice stream on Kohler West slowed by 10%.