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Robotic float makes historic discovery by mapping unseen ocean layers in Antarctica

A robotic float, 'Argo', reveals the present state of affairs of the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves in East Antarctica.
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The Antarctic Ocean plays a critical role in regulating the world’s climate. Warming temps are throwing it off balance

The Antarctic, or Southern, Ocean is the world’s least-explored and least understood. But a team of scientists in land-locked Boulder has recently made a discovery that may lead to a better ...
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Hundreds of quakes detected beneath Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Far beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica’s most feared ice giant, scientists have picked up a new kind of warning signal: ...
Science Daily

A hidden Antarctic shift unleashed the carbon that warmed the world

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier'

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

Scientists spot ocean ‘storms’ rapidly melting Antarctica’s doomsday glacier — What’s driving it?

Antarctica’s key glaciers are melting faster as underwater storms churn warm water upward. New research reveals surprising ...

Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data

And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...

What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers

Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us ...

Expansion of Antarctic bottom water contributed to the end of the last Ice Age

December 2025 / Kiel. A study by an international team involving the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows ...
CNN

The planet’s coldest, saltiest ocean waters are heating up and shrinking, report finds

Deep ocean water in the Antarctic is heating up and shrinking, with potentially far-reaching consequences for climate change and deep ocean ecosystems, according to a report. “Antarctic bottom water” ...

Adrift like Shackleton: Robot float survives Antarctic ice

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive ...