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...
The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest mass of ice on the planet, only surpassed by the Antarctic ice sheet. Covering an area of 1.7 million square kilometers and reaching an average thickness of 2,000 meters, it appears invulnerable. And yet, a study shows...
The north of Greenland has long been considered somewhat more resistant to global warming than the rest of the island, in part because of the remaining multi-year ice cover in the region. But in recent years, the ice here has also been breaking up with increasing...