The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast expanse spanning over 10 million square kilometers, has long concealed a landscape ...

Some of the samples will be returned to the United States for further analysis in order to answer long-standing questions about Antarctica’s climate history and whether subglacial lakes stabilize or ...

Recent research has focused on various aspects of Antarctic ice, including the role of subglacial lakes, the impact of atmospheric rivers, and the alarming trends in sea ice extent. These studies ...

Lake Vostok is the largest of 375 or so subglacial lakes in Antarctica. It is also the fourth deepest lake on Earth, with depths reaching 800 meters from the lake’s surface, itself covered by 2 miles ...

A slow climate feedback loop may be bubbling beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheet ... melt has been shown to increase volcanic activity in subglacial volcanoes elsewhere on the globe.

More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could ... ice can expedite the onset of an eruption from a subglacial volcano. Eruptions of subglacial volcanoes ...

Scientists must rely on ice-penetrating radar and satellite imagery to identify subglacial eruptions. Previous studies suggest that Antarctica harbors nearly 140 volcanoes beneath the ice ...

As Antarctica gradually loses its ice cover, the pressure on the underlying magma reservoirs decreases, increasing the risk of subglacial eruptions. These eruptions could, in turn, accelerate melting, ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions ... they can have significant consequences. Heat from subglacial volcanic eruptions can accelerate melting deep below the surface ...