A robot submarine mapped strange structures under Antarctic ice, then vanished without a trace

Hundreds of meters below a floating Antarctic ice shelf, a bright orange robot was traveling through a place ships, ...
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Buried under 2 kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists discover a lost landscape frozen for 34 million years

Scientists have identified an ancient, river-carved landscape hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, untouched for more than 34 million years. Roughly the size of Wales, the terrain was mapped ...

Antarctica's ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won't save it—low‑lying coastal areas elsewhere to suffer

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities ...

An Unmapped Region of Antarctica Could Be Harboring a Major Threat

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin is a huge depression in the bedrock beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Although it is one of ...
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A Submersible Uncovered Secret Structures. Then, It Vanished Under Antarctic Waters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named "Ran" to traverse the ...

Antarctica will keep losing ice throughout this century, even if emissions are cut

Antarctica may feel very far away from everyday life. But when ice sitting on land moves into the ocean, it raises sea levels ...
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Robot gives rare glimpse under Antarctic sea ice

An underwater robot has captured a rare glimpse beneath the Antarctic sea ice, revealing a colourful world filled with coconut-shaped sponges, dandelion-like worms, pink algae and spidery starfish.
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Valuable minerals under Antarctica’s melting ice could mean a drilling-ban reversal

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Below the Antarctic ice lies a treasure trove of minerals, including copper, iron, gold, silver, platinum and cobalt. Warming ...
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Scientists find sponges living under Antarctic ice shelf

The discovery of the life-forms growing on a boulder far beneath the ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, located in the southeastern Weddell Sea, came as a surprise to the the team of geologists, ...
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Antarctica’s ice shelves face a growing threat from warm waters below

For years, climate models warned that warm deep water around Antarctica could edge closer to the continent's icy fringe. Now the ocean itself appears to be confirming it. A decades-long analysis of ...

Tragedy stopped Mawson exploring this remote Antarctic region. We must get there to study its melting ice

If all the ice in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin melted, it would raise global sea levels 3 to 4 metres. It happened before – at ...

Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities around the world. Today, about 1 billion people live in coastal areas; about ...