By analyzing unusual rock samples collected years ago in Antarctica, scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a remarkable record of how the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has ...

Hot rock and ice: Volcanic chain ... May 13, 2021 — The Antarctic ice sheet was even more unstable in the past than previously thought, and at times possibly came close to collapse, ...

By analyzing unusual rock samples collected years ago in Antarctica, scientists have discovered a remarkable record of how the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has responded to changes in climate over a ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

Mysterious radio signals detected emanating from Antarctica's ice have left particle physicists baffled. The pulses were ...

Drilling 500 meters through the ice sheet to the Antarctic mainland beneath, they encountered water and sedimentary rock. For the hot water drilling, they used a high-pressure nozzle and water at ...

A plume of hot mantle rock may be heating West Antarctica, creating lakes and rivers below massive ice sheets and contributing to sea-level rise. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

At the boundary between rock and ice, ... In addition to low-lying valleys, covered lakes, and bizarre sub-glacial rivers, the Antarctic ice is also hiding massive mountain ranges.

But the Antarctic critters on this particular rock don’t live under a bustling water column. They live under a half-mile of solid ice. And they can’t roam away from their rock in search of food.

Striations on the surface of the ice seemed to indicate the shape of a canyon underneath the surface, as well as a subglacial lake covering up to 1,250 square kilometres (483 square miles).

Drilling 500 meters through the ice sheet to the Antarctic mainland beneath, they encountered water and sedimentary rock. For the hot water drilling, they used a high-pressure nozzle and water at ...