Recently scientists have made a surprising discovery that has caught the attention of the whole world. They have discovered ...

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Dale Andersen emerging from under the ice in Lake Untersee. Screen capture from YouTube video: Whispers Beneath the Ice: ...

Anirudha Mahagaonkar [Opens in a new window], Supraglacial lakes on Antarctic ice shelves can have far-reaching implications for ice-sheet stability, highlighting the need to understand their dynamics ...

On Monday, U.S. scientists drilling into Antarctic Lake Whillans announced that they ... into subglacial lakes that are even deeper down under the ice sheet. The British team is investigating ...

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Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2015), pp. 1139-1155 (17 pages) Lake Untersee, Antarctica, is a freshwater perennially ice covered lake bounded along its north by the Anuchin glacier. The ...

The team had been drilling through the ice for more than 20 years before it finally reached the surface of the isolated lake and brought back water samples, buried under two miles of Antarctic ice.

But this expedition to Antarctica is unlike any other. Here we’ll be diving deeper than anyone has dived before under Antarctic ice—and the conditions will be beyond harsh. At home in France ...

An endurance swimmer has finished the first swim under the Antarctic ice to demonstrate ... braved the freezing waters of the supra-glacial lake in nothing more than his swimming trunks, cap ...