Photo: Michael Wegner Danielle Udy, University of Tasmania; Anthony Kiem, University of Newcastle; Neil Holbrook, University of Tasmania; Nerilie Abram, Australian National University, and Tessa Vance, University of Tasmania Australia has a long history of bushfires....
The COLDEX team found the oldest ice to date in the blue ice of the Allan Hills. Photo: Julia Marks Peterson The record for the oldest ice found in Antarctica has been broken by a US research team: In the Allan Hills, they discovered 4.6 million-year-old ice from...
The SWAIS 2C team’s drilling camp on the Kamb Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, 860 kilometers from New Zealand’s Scott Station. Photo: Anthony Powell The scientific team of the SWAIS 2C project has successfully completed the first stage and recovered the...
One of the ice cores taken as part of a Norwegian-US expedition in East Antarctica and analyzed for various toxic and non-toxic heavy metals. Lead contamination in the ice dates back to the 13th century. Image: Stein Tronstadt, Norwegian Polar Institute (courtesy of...
Researchers of the EastGRIP project, a 14-nations research project on ice core drilling on the Greenland ice sheet, recently made a significant discovery: ice streams flow as a single block into the oceans, sliding on mud rather than on water. This discovery will have...
