Por: The Boston Globe Nation February 16, 2023
Rapidly warming oceans are cutting into the underside of the Earth’s widest glacier and posing a major sea-level-rise threat, startling new data and images show.Using an underwater robot at Thwaites Glacier, researchers have determined that warm water is getting channeled into crevasses in what the researchers called ‘’terraces’' — essentially, upside-down trenches — and carving out gaps under the ice. As the ice then flows... + full article
Associated Press USA Science February 16, 2023
Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed because of its massive melt and , and it’s both good and bad news.Using a 13-foot pencil-shaped robot that swam under the grounding line where ice first juts... + más
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Portland Press Herald USA World February 16, 2023
Rapidly warming oceans are cutting into the underside of the Earth’s widest glacier and posing a major sea-level-rise threat, startling new data and images show. Using an underwater robot at Thwaites Glacier, researchers have determined that warm water is getting channeled... + más
WPLG Local 10 USA Politics February 15, 2023
NBC News USA Science February 15, 2023
Antarctica’s rapidly melting “doomsday glacier” is one of the most closely studied masses of ice in the world, but new research by teams that used an underwater robot to swim beneath the floating ice shelf is providing some of the clearest insights yet into how the glacier... + más
The Atlantic USA Science December 03, 2022
The once-endangered species is now wreaking havoc on coastal vegetation, putting Antarctica at risk.GettyDecember 3, 2022, 8 AM ETThis article was originally published by .In the Antarctic, the fur-seal population is booming. Having rebounded from near eradication by hunters in... + más
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Newsweek USA Tech November 17, 2022
Antarctica is one of the most extreme environments on Earth. It is also one of the most unexplored.Many of us think of the continent as a vast, white wasteland, populated by nothing more than penguins and seals. But beneath its icy surface, scientists are beginning to discover... + más
UK polar research ship to make 2nd voyage to Antarctica | Associated Press
UK polar research ship to make 2nd voyage to Antarctica | WPLG Local 10
Newsweek USA Tech November 03, 2022
The glaciers in California's Yosemite National Park could be lost in just 28 years. The glaciers' retreat can be seen in historic images, with images dating back almost 150 years showing the extent of how much has been lost.Glaciers, which were first formed 10,000... + más
8-year-old boy hopes to become youngest to climb El Capitan. But is it safe? | ABC News
Expedition finds cameras left by Yukon mountaineers in 1937 | The Boston Globe
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