When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest frozen reservoir on ... Beyond Antarctica, this research highlights the growing role ...

"In general, it's become clear the Antarctic ice sheet is thicker than we originally realized," said Peter Fretwell of the British Antarctic Survey, which produced the map. A mix of good news and ...

And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of some 150 billion tons per year, and growing greener in ... the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the smaller half of Antarctica to ...

Antarctic ice sheet background About 90% of the ice on Earth is located in Antarctica; if all this ice were to melt, the global sea level would rise by more than 50 meters. In addition, the ice ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

a massive floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute. The seafloor beneath, previously covered by 209 square miles of ice, had never ...