Antarctica

On December 26, 2019, Erin Pettit trudged across a plain of glaring snow and ice, dragging an ice-penetrating radar unit the size of a large suitcase on a red plastic sled behind her. The brittle snow crunched like cornflakes underneath her boots—evidence that it had recently melted and refrozen following…

Home News Researchers recently unearthed ancient DNA buried underneath the seafloor in the Scotia Sea north of mainland Antarctica. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab) DNA from ancient microorganisms, some of which dates back to roughly 1 million years ago, has been discovered beneath the seafloor in Antarctica. The…

The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica — about the size of Florida — has been an elephant in the room for scientists trying to make global sea-level rise predictions. This massive ice stream is in a phase of fast retreat, leading to widespread concern about exactly how much, and how…

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21st September 2022 – Scientists monitoring the ozone hole and water ecosystem from a Ukrainian research base in Antarctica will have better access to connectivity options thanks to a cloud-based services platform. The National Antarctic Scientific Center (NANC) has connected to neXat, a capacity aggregator and PaaS, to monitor the…

Synopsis The Nature Geoscience journal published research that mentions the Doomsday Glacier could start melting uncontrollably and affect ecosystems in coastal areas. Thwaites glacier in Antarctica is also known as the "Doomsday Glacier." AgenciesResearch in the Nature Geoscience journal says that the Doomsday Glacier is on the verge of a…

Over the past decade, scientists studying sea level rise have turned their attention to western Antarctica, where one of the world’s largest glaciers has dumped over a trillion tons of ice into the ocean since the early 2000s. The Thwaites glacier has been referred to as the “doomsday glacier” because…

Reported By:| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Sep 07, 2022, 01:30 PM IST The melting of glaciers in Antarctica, though worrisome, is not an unheard-of phenomenon in the era of climate change. There are many repercussions of melting glaciers, but one specific glacier can cause a…

While droughts, heat waves, and flooding have taken center stage this summer for people around the world, it may be easy to forget about the looming threat posed by rising sea levels. That threat, however, is not actually so far off. For years, scientists have studied one particular ice sheet…

West Antarctica is undergoing rapid changes associated with both atmospheric and oceanic warming. This atmospheric warming, coupled with increased ocean temperature along the West Antarctic Peninsula, has led to glacier retreat along the coast. Scientists at Caltech and JPL have developed a new model suggesting that Antarctica’s ice shelves may…