Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Results are presented in the form of coherence maps, where each measurement has a spatial resolution of approximately five kilometers, and the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) is used as a case study for more ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

A precision camera to help scientists map the sea floor ... has changed since explorers Scott and Shackleton visited the Ross Ice Shelf. "We material that was collected by Scott and Shackleton ...

Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.

Seafloor sediments from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf represent an archive of warmer periods in Earth’s past. An ambitious international project aims to uncover what we can learn about our hotter ...

The biggest danger with shelf ice is how unstable it is. Shelf ice can collapse from a person walking on it, and this is ...

A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand - and abroad - are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ross Sea.

forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal ...

If you were to walk out onto the ice, it’s hard to know where the shoreline lies. The biggest danger with shelf ice is how unstable it is. Shelf ice can collapse from a person walking on it ...