Antarctic Ice News

The team, led by researchers from Northumbria University in the UK, has mapped for the first time three vast, subglacial valleys in West Antarctica

A geothermal heat source called mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet

Satellite images confirm the continent's sea ice fell to its lowest maximum and minimum levels this year since satellite observations began in 1979

Such an abrupt change would spell disaster for major cities, coastal areas across the globe, forcing hundreds of millions of people to seek higher ground

The icebergs release a vast trail of iron and other nutrients that act as fertilisers for algae and other tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean

Nasa research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including IPCC's 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice

By making extreme carbon cuts and moving to renewable energy could save millions of people living in iconic coastal areas of the United States

The study says that the elimination of the entire Antarctic ice sheet could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres, over thousands of years

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This veteran of 46 full marathons and ultras hopes to run the Antarctic Ice Marathon this year