May 28, 2014 · WAVE WATCHER Using sensors mounted on ice chunks, researchers found that storm-generated waves taller than 3 meters can plow across hundreds of kilometers of sea ice, breaking it up.

Mar 30, 2025 · Deploying ROVs below floating glaciers is tricky business.Current navigation systems must rely on acoustics rather than GPS because of the thickness of the ice. Extreme pressures and temperatures merely add to the challenge. A stalk of deep-sea coral found 1,200 meters deep in the recently revealed seabed area.ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Mar 1, 2024 · Scientists have observed the fastest glacier fracture ever recorded — a crack in Antarctica's ice that opened at roughly 80 mph (129 km/h). The finding reveals that giant ice masses can...

Nov 5, 2024 · Ice is melting “around the fringe of the continental ice sheet where it’s running into the ocean.” That also destabilizes ice shelves and contributes to rising seas.

Jul 2, 2024 · Unlike the Arctic, instrumentation on Antarctic ice shelves, sea ice, and even land ice and nunataks, does not survive the continent’s brutal, bitter winters and high winds. For that reason, little on-the-ground data exists to analyze what is happening to Antarctica’s ice its surrounding ocean.

Mar 28, 2022 · The unexpected collapse highlighted the importance of—and uncertainty about—the continent’s ice shelves, which act like bottle stoppers controlling the flow of ice from land to sea.

Mar 3, 2025 · But fresh, cool water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the salty water of the ocean, potentially disrupting the vital ocean current.

Feb 28, 2024 · New research shows that such rifts can open very quickly, and that the seawater rushing in helps control the speed of ice shelf breakage. Rob Soto. There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet.

Mar 3, 2025 · It picks up the intricate interactions between ice melting and ocean circulation. In this future projection, cold, fresh melt water from Antarctica migrates north, filling the deep ocean as it goes.

1 day ago · Simulated Antarctic ice velocity over 1995–2300, using the Elmer/Ice model of ice sheets. A looming threat Failing to account for subglacial water means global sea-level rise projections are ...