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Media clippings
Is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet already doomed?
12 November 2024
An international team is on a mission to find out if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is already doomed, or whether there is time to prevent 4-5m of sea-level rise.
Media clippings
Beneath the Ice: Revealing Antarctica’s past to safeguard the future
12 November 2024
ANZIC Expeditioner, Dr Linda Armbrecht, is part of an international team probing the sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Media releases
International team launch second attempt to drill deep for Antarctic climate clues
11 November 2024
An ambitious mission is underway for critical geological records to forecast future sea-level rise, with the first team members departing on a 1128 km journey over ice to set up…
Media clippings
Westantarktis: Geologische Bohrmission wird fortgesetzt
11 November 2024
Das internationale antarktische Forschungsbohrprojekt "Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to Two Degrees of Warming" (SWAIS 2C)", an dem sich auch die BGR beteiligt, geht in die nächste Phase.
Media clippings
We’re spending Christmas in Antarctica to predict Earth’s future
20 October 2024
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.
Project updates
SWAIS2C core workshop offers first glimpse of sediment from below Ross Ice Shelf
20 May 2024
Sediment cores retrieved from Antarctica’s Siple Coast last summer were carefully opened and examined at a recent workshop at the Otago Repository for Core Analysis (ORCA), an important step in…
Media clippings
Probing West Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Mysteries
27 February 2024
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.
Media releases
Antarctic frontier project ‘tantalisingly close’ to vital climate secrets
31 January 2024
An international team has successfully drilled through 580 metres of ice, obtained the longest sediment core ever retrieved from the remote Siple Coast, and gathered crucial information in their mission…
Ross Shelf reports
End of the first season at KIS-3
28 December 2023
The first SWAIS2C field season at the KIS-3 drill site on the Ross Ice Shelf is over, and our on-ice team is heading home with some cool new data and…
Ross Shelf reports
Tuesday 26 December 2023
26 December 2023
What is an interstitial water sample and why do we care?