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Drilling deeper than anyone has drilled before, researchers hope they will find useful secrets - and vindication for their personal sacrifice.   NB this article is behind a paywall.

Durham University is part of an international project pushing new boundaries to understand how the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet could respond to climate change.

While Santa’s been busy at the North Pole, a team of international experts have dealt some serious scientific action to the South Pole. Original article

Precis It's nearly Christmas, even in Antarctica!

Turquet’s octopuses, a species of cephalopod found in the Southern Ocean, were able to move around a melted West Antarctic Ice Sheet as recently as 125,000 years ago, according to new…

Il futuro dell’umanità sarà inevitabilmente condizionato dall’innalzamento del livello dei mari, perché il riscaldamento dell’Oceano Australe potrà accelerare la fusione di una parte della calotta glaciale che ricopre l’Antartide Occidentale…

A multinational team of scientists, drillers and engineers has deployed to a remote part of Antarctica on an urgent mission to predict how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will…

We are on notice - Antarctica's disappearing sea ice is set to directly impact life here in New Zealand. Original article

この度、2023年11月から南極での活動を開始する「西南極ロス海棚氷下掘削計画（Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius of Warming、略称SWAIS2C）」に、国立極地研究所の菅沼 悠介教授、北海道大学低温科学研究所の関 宰准教授、富山大学学術研究部理学系の堀川 恵司教授が参加します。 Original article

A large New Zealand-led team of researchers, engineers and drillers is hopefully just weeks away from starting drilling on an ambitious project to retrieve a deep sediment core from a…