East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Heavy sea ice conditions have thwarted a science mission from reaching the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica from which a large iceberg broke off in July ... of the seafloor biodiversity in this area and provide a more accurate timeframe for retreat of ice sheets from the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Extreme cold in Britain, Switzerland and Japan, a record-breaking cold snap in Canada and the US and an expansion of the East Antarctic ice sheet coincided with a Bureau of Meteorology tweet (later retracted) that January 7 had set a heat record for the Sydney Basin. Steffen told us these seemingly ...

But "the elephant in the room" is the polar ice sheets, said Naish. "For Antarctica," he said, showing another PowerPoint slide, "it's very much in that red area of west Antarctica where we're seeing significant contributions; in fact, east Antarctica, if anything east Antarctica ice sheets are gaining a bit of mass.".

The researchers found that between 2008 and 2015, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet had essentially no change in its rate of ice discharge—ice flow into the ocean. They also confirmed that the flow of West Antarctica's Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers into the ocean continues to accelerate, albeit at a slower ...

And they have suspected this could lead to more snowfall in Antarctica, but observations were few and far apart. So Brooke Medley, a NASA research scientist, and her colleagues, analyzed a 500-foot-deep ice core extracted from the thick ice sheet in Queen Maud Land, an area in East Antarctica due ...

The findings, published February 13 in The Cryosphere, reveal accelerating ice flow in the West Antarctic ice sheet, and a steady flow in the East. Much of the findings confirm what previous studies have shown, but using more direct and precise measurements of the ice sheets. Based on seven years of ...

A NASA study has provided the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean. The findings uses satellite data to confirm accelerating ice losses from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and also reveal surprisingly steady rates of flow from its much larger neighbor to the east.

And with our two Antarctic aircraft campaigns from Argentina and East Antarctica, we've flown over a large area of the Antarctic continent." ... their understanding of how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are contributing to sea level rise and how the changing polar sea ice impacts weather and climate.

A fascinating video of ice being dropped 90 metres into an Antarctic glacier has been shared thousands of times on Twitter – and it's sure to appeal to your inner child. Climate scientist Peter Neff ... Katabatic winds at Taylor Glacier, Antarctica , falling off the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Looks peaceful, but ...