Scientists were again baffled in 2016 and 2017 when the polynya reappeared because of its vast size and distance from the coast - setting them on a hunt to uncover what was forming the hole.
Scientists have solved the mystery behind the appearance of an Antarctic hole twice the size of Wales. The rare opening in the sea ice puzzled researchers when it occurred during the winters of ...
Scientists have unraveled the causes of a strange phenomenon in Antarctica: a massive hole in the sea ice, as large as Switzerland, that forms intermittently. This hole, known as the Maud Rise polynya ...
With the rock underneath dissolved away, underground caverns are left underneath the surface. When the weakened surface ...
Bad weather and other logistical problems delayed the TIME and GHOST teams getting into the field by a couple of weeks, and by mid-December, most researchers had made it to a camp called West ...
A study conducted by NASA has shown that a giant cavity two thirds the size of Manhattan is rapidly melting underneath Thwaites Glacier, caused by climate change. That's 14 billion tons of ice ...
Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals, and exotic creatures thrive. Tendrils of ice-covered brine, or brinicles, leak from sea ice near ...
Of all the polar regions, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is the most sensitive to a warming ocean due to climate change. This is already causing a long-term ice sheet melt, and the question is how ...
As the world grapples with the consequences of global warming, an unexpected phenomenon is emerging in Antarctica. While the continent is losing ice at an alarming rate, a new study reveals that ...
Record-breaking low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 may have been influenced by climate change, scientists have said. Researchers at the the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) analysed ...
A crevasse measuring a few thousand feet from an altitude of 1,500 ft., during a November flyover. The Great Crack-Up By JEFFREY KLUGER Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN—MAGNUM PHOTOS FOR TIME It ...