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Scientists discover vast hidden structure beneath Antarctica’s ice
Scientists discover vast hidden structure beneath Antarctica’s ice - Date: - June 4, 2026 - Source: - Durham University - Summary: - A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure. The finding sheds new light on Antarctica’s ancient tectonic history and could help scientists better understand how the ice sheet behaves today. Researchers have...
Expedition to Antarctica advances research on potential melanoma treatment
Expedition to Antarctica advances research on potential melanoma treatment Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Deep beneath the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, a small marine organism may hold clues to a future cancer treatment. Researchers from USF recently returned from a six-week expedition in one of the most remote environments on Earth to study a species of ascidian, or sea squirt, that contains a bacterium capable of killing melanoma cancer cells. The discovery was...
Giant fan-shaped structure found under East Antarctica
Giant fan-shaped structure found under East Antarctica Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The findings are published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Enormous subglacial basins The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three kilometers thick in parts.
How waves, ponds and green algae are accelerating sea ice melt in Antarctica
How waves, ponds and green algae are accelerating sea ice melt in Antarctica Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, home to penguins in the south of the globe or polar bears in the north. But our new research shows Antarctic sea ice can turn into rafts of rotting floes (the free-floating pieces of ice) or an icy green slush when it interacts with waves in...
Buoys track ocean waves across 14,000 km, from storms in Antarctica to ripples in Alaska
Buoys track ocean waves across 14,000 km, from storms in Antarctica to ripples in Alaska Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor For the first time, mighty ocean waves generated in the Southern Ocean have been accurately measured all the way to the tiny ripples they form on the shores of Alaska. Professor Ian Young, from the University of Melbourne's Department of Infrastructure Engineering, is lead author on a landmark study that analyzed data from 300 drifting ocean buoys...
Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point 1 million years ago
A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more reactive to temperature and CO2 changes. Researchers warn this surprising sensitivity could offer clues about how the continent may respond to today’s warming world.
'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year
Thwaites Glacier has been melting rapidly since the 1980s.
Antarctic 'sky rivers' deliver up to 90% of snowfall, 3D algorithm suggests
Antarctic 'sky rivers' deliver up to 90% of snowfall, 3D algorithm suggests Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Atmospheric rivers act like "rivers in the sky," shuttling intense bands of warm, heavy moisture from lower to higher latitudes. When an atmospheric river encounters cold air or mountainous terrain, the moisture it carries condenses and falls as heavy rain or snow. In Antarctica, the arrival of an atmospheric river can help build surface ice mass.
Extreme weather is making Antarctic research harder, but new technology is providing some answers
Extreme weather is making Antarctic research harder, but new technology is providing some answers Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor When you think of Antarctica, you might imagine a stark, otherworldly continent of endless, white ice, with the only sound being the wind punctuated by the crack of a glacier calving in the distance. This image may have been true more than 30 years ago, but is certainly not the case anymore. In January, I met online with colleagues who...
The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels
Thwaites Glacier is the largest glacier in West Antarctica, pictured here by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in 2019.