However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record ... described as 'uneven melting'. For example, sea ice in the Weddell Sea and along the coasts of ...

The South Pole’s ice sheets – which contain up to 90% of the world’s total freshwater – are melting three times as fast as a decade ago. Antarctica shed three trillion tons of ice between ...

A thermal probe on the Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander suggests that ice may be present a few centemetres ... To do it near the South Pole, Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment, a thermal ...

The volume of ice that sits atop the continent at the South Pole is staggering. Antarctica’s ice sheet holds enough water to ... These troughs are like rivers of ice, and their shape can determine how ...

Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice (which is frozen carbon dioxide), covering frozen water. As the dry ice melts, carbon dioxide could be released into the atmosphere ...

Witness the team gear up for the 2,000-mile journey to the Ross Ice Shelf and ride the very ... driest desert on Earth - all the way to the South Pole.

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole is the memoir of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the emergency-room–trained 47-year-old physician who, because she could not be ...

The topography is revealed in the finest detail yet, providing new insight into understudied areas, including around the South Pole ... "This puts the ice at greater risk of melting," he added.