Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators, ...

Scientists have uncovered a gigantic hidden structure beneath East Antarctica, linking several enormous basins buried under miles of ice into a single fan-shaped formation stretching across the ...

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region Temperatures in the Antarctic climbed above 15C this month, shattering the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Transantarctic Mountains, the longest non-compressional range in the world, border one side of the structure. (Matt ...

Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, home to penguins in the south of the globe or polar bears in the north. But ...

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Duane Ollinger, the star of Discovery's Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, has died after a battle with ALS. He was 68. Ollinger's passing was confirmed by his co-star Ryan Skinner, who shared the news on ...

A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure.

A massive, semi-continent-sized subsurface structure has been discovered by scientists beneath Antarctica’s frozen surface. The discovery, reported by an international team of scientists, reveals the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Duane Ollinger died at 68 on June 2 in Amarillo, Tex. His costar Ryan Skinner said that he died from respiratory failure resulting ...

An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The findings are published in the ...