Ice
Environment
Research
There’s a link between sudden Antarctic ice shelf breakups and sea ice loss
When sea ice retreats, damaging ocean waves can break already weakened Antarctic ice shelves
Sciences & Technology
The world’s most powerful ocean current could slow by 2050
New research finds the more Antarctic ice melts, the more the ocean is flooded by melt water, the more the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is likely to slow down – creating a vicious climate change cycle
Environment
Research
The Southern Ocean is Earth’s climate ‘engine room’
A shipboard monitoring system is giving researchers much-needed measurements of Antarctic wind, waves and ice