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Op-Ed: Antarctic ice cap 'growing' and aren’t theories misunderstood?

This is one for the thinkers: The Antarctic is losing big amounts of ice through calving, but the ice is being more than replaced by cooling elsewhere. It’s basic thermodynamics of ice, really. The surprise is that nobody’s making a big deal about it.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 30 comments

Antarctic Ice Mass Growing

As opposed to the doom and gloom predictions of recent ice melt features in the western section of Antarctica, a recent study shows ice is thickening in Eastern Antarctica.

In the Media by Gar Swaffar - 7 comments

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Antarctic lake bid edges closer

An ambitious plan to explore a vast lake trapped beneath the Antarctic ice is a step closer to becoming reality.

Antarctic lake mission key tests

Training begins for a pioneering UK project to search for life in a lake hidden beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet.

Russians claim Antarctic success

Russian scientists are reporting success in their quest to drill into Lake Vostok, a huge body of liquid water buried under the Antarctic ice.

Ocean driving Antarctic ice loss

Most of the ice being lost from Antarctica is going as a result of warm water eating the fringes of the continent, a new study confirms.

Antarctic ice melting from below due to warming ocean

Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.