There’s lots of water in Antarctica, but most of it is frozen. You’d be forgiven, then, for thinking that rivers aren’t really a thing on the continent – however, you’d be mistaken.
It was 44-34 million years ago, during the mid-late Eocene epoch, when parts of Antarctica were last ice-free. This left room for systems of rivers that brought sediments from the mountain range ...
Experts are on red alert after uncovering a ticking time bomb in Antarctica that would reshape the continent and dramatically increase sea levels worldwide. More than 100 volcanoes lie beneath the ...
She received a BA in mathematics from Pomona College and a Masters of Education from Vanderbilt University. Her current research is using self organizing maps to classify meteorological patterns that ...
Today, Condé Nast Traveler’s Matthew Buck is in Antarctica to see what life is like on the most remote continent on Earth. A stay in Antarctica is a rare opportunity filled with once-in-a ...
This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on Antarctica, the coldest, windiest continent on Earth and the least inhabited. One clip introduces us to the idea of glaciers as rivers of ...
Nasa said: “A geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.
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 ...
Research Interests: Thwaites Glacier, surface mass balance, extreme snowfall events, Antarctic atmospheric rivers I research the impacts of snowfall and extreme precipitation events on the surface ...