"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

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Dating the underlying rocks will hopefully give scientists a good idea of the last time that this part of Antarctica was ice free. Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

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As a result, the P-RAID system is smaller and lighter than most drilling systems, making it ideally suited for deployment in Antarctica. Once the rock samples are returned to the UK, they will ...

Antarctica is home to over 100 volcanoes ... The findings indicate that as the ice melts, it relieves pressure on the rocks below, allowing the compressed magma to expand. This process increases ...

Dating of the underlying rocks will be undertaken to unravel when this region of Antarctica was ice-free for the last time. The Little Dome C camp was deployed and sustained thanks to the highly ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

In fact, the research showed that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold over the last four decades. “The landscape is still almost entirely dominated by snow, ...