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 melt from global and ocean warming.
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Antarctic frontier drill hunt for clues to future sea-level rise risk
13 December 2025
It reads like a Hollywood plot – a team crossing crevasse-riddled sea ice to drill for geological evidence that could reveal when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might collapse, impacting millions.
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Race to the ice: A global team’s mission to drill for answer to sea-level rise
12 December 2025
A major international research mission is heading into its third and most ambitious season, as scientists attempt to uncover how 2°C of warming could transform sea levels.