The Gamburtsev Mountains are buried beneath the highest point of the East Antarctica ice sheet. They were first ... Most mountain ranges formed by continental collisions are eventually worn ...

Deep into the ice sheet, their instruments showed ... the bottom of the Greenland and Antarctic ice bed, where glaciers rest on continental bedrock kilometers below the surface of the ice ...

Deep into the ice sheet, their instruments showed ... the bottom of the Greenland and Antarctic ice bed, where glaciers rest on continental bedrock kilometres below the surface of the ice ...

Supraglacial environments are generally nutrient-limited however the vast majority of our understanding of these habitats stems from continental ice sheets (e.g., Greenland, Antarctica), which differ ...

Venn diagrams showing ... in other glacier forefields are required to assess the broader applicability of this ecological pattern. Our study applied DNA separation techniques to uncover living ...

A glacier in Antarctica is rapidly redirecting ice from a neighboring glacier, revealing a new and urgent dynamic in ice flow ...

Scientists have discovered "ice piracy" in Antarctica, where glaciers are stealing ice from ... Scientists used to think Antarctica’s ice sheet was slow and steady. But now it turns out it ...

New research shows polar ice sheets may begin irreversible collapse even at 1.5°C warming - putting millions at risk.

The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. As temperatures rise, that ice is melting, flowing into the ocean and making sea levels rise. While change in sea level rise is often measured in ...

Deep crevasses form in fast-flowing ice at Store Glacier, an outlet glacier of the west Greenland Ice Sheet. Credit: Dr. Tom Chudley, Durham University The mass of ice lost from these ice sheets ...

For years, visitors have watched in awe as blocks of ice - some the size of a 20-story building - collapse from Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier. But recently, the size of the ice chunks ...