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Melting Antarctic ice could cripple a deep ocean climate engine

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Earthquakes Deep Below Antarctic Waters Seem to Have Surprising Effects on Life at the Surface

Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms ...

Swinging abyss: Oxygen isotope analysis shows less dynamic Antarctic ice sheet in Oligocene period

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...
The Cool Down on MSN

Researchers make mind-blowing discovery while analyzing Arctic ocean floor: 'What happened in the past is likely to recur'

"Onshore changes in West Antarctica will not be slow, gradual or imperceptible from a human perspective:" Researchers make ...

Scientists stunned by discovery in world's coldest ocean waters: 'Signals from the past'

Tens of thousands of years ago, a new study suggests, a warming event led to the release of carbon dioxide from deep in the ...
Live Science

Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes are shaking the crumbling end of Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier

Glacial earthquakes are rocking the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake ...
Colorado Public Radio

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 ...

Ancient Antarctica reveals a 'one–two punch' behind ice sheet collapse

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...
WMNF

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Entering the Antarctic Sea Ice, and a New World

After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing ...
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” ...