A "hotspot" is melting the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet at the South Pole. The area affected is three times that of Greater London. Scientists suspect a combination of unusually radioactive ...

make it the more likely to host the oldest ice. We also observe a distinct drawdown of IRH geometry around South Pole, indicative of melting from enhanced geothermal heat flux or the removal of deeper ...

It contains the geographic South Pole. Approximately 98 percent of the continent's surface is covered with ice. Read also ...

Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice ... the theory is that buried ice will melt and seep up from underground. Some of it would vaporize and create clouds in the ...

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole is the memoir of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the emergency-room–trained 47-year-old physician who, because she could not be ...

Icefin has reached the point at which the warm ocean water meets the wall of ice at the front of the mighty Thwaites glacier - the point where this vast body of ice begins to melt. Glaciologists ...

A Dartmouth grad student is on a mission to find the oldest ice on the planet and to find it — he’s joined a team of scientists at the South Pole. Wind speeds there average 40 mph and ...

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified with news that for the first time the North Pole stands at the ... for shipping. In the South, the effect is equally ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole. In mountainous areas ... any snow that does fall is not able to melt and so compacts to form ice. The average temperature in Antarctica is around -30 °c.