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A diagram from a scientific study illustrating where Antarctic ice shelves have grown or receded over a decade is being shared on social media as evidence that Antarctica’s overall ice mass is ...
Antarctica's Thwaites glacier is in peril, ... A 3D diagram of the Thwaites glacier, illustrating sea-floor channels that may carry warm water to the glacier's underside and cause melting.
The structure in question is 120 meters (400 feet) across and it is located in Eastern Antarctica. The website states that the structure “resembles something that may easily have been designed ...
Fact check roundup: Debunking the flawed science behind flat Earth claims The post claims Antarctica forms a 360-degree circle around Earth, echoing a claim previously debunked by USA TODAY that ...
Antarctica is home to more than 100 volcanoes, some of which are active, such as Mount Erebus. Most, however, ... Diagram of the thermomechanical model of a magma chamber with simulation of ice ...
Located in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, the falls pour forth from Taylor Glacier, and the liquid bubbles up from fissures in the glacier’s surface. The flow was previously a mystery, as ...
It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...
While the world rightfully focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, the planet is still warming. This summer’s Antarctic weather, as elsewhere in the world, was unprecedented in the observed record.
If Antarctica were a wheel, the boundary would look a bit like a spoke, emanating from a spot a bit off-center. This transition zone is actually the line of demarcation between the geology of West ...
When we sum up losses around Antarctica, we find that the change in volume of all the ice shelves was almost zero in the first decade of our record (1994-2003) but, on average, over 300 cubic ...