More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off. The reason is that this unloading of ice sheets reduces pressure on magma chambers below the ...

Schematic map of separate volcanoes and volcanic provinces in Western Antarctica position. Picture: Vries et al., 2017 “The crustal unloading associated with melting an ice sheet affects the ...

A slow climate feedback loop may be bubbling beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheet. The continent, divided east to west by the Transantarctic Mountains, includes volcanic giants such as Mount Erebus ...