The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

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A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean over previous glacial cycles, but not in the way ...

While scientists cite direct evidence that the Antarctic ice sheet is melting, their theories about the reasons are controversial. Most scientists see global warming as one of the factors. But whether ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary. That is what an international team brought ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University ...