Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

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Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

A new study led by scientists at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Earth Observation Science offers the most ...

UC Irvine & NASA researchers have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that are causing ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored ...

Discover how subsurface ocean "storms" are responsible for significant melting of the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers.

UC Irvine and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers found that small, short-term eddies and vortices push warm water beneath Antarctica’s glaciers, causing aggressive melting. Ocean storms and ...

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s ...