Another extraordinary element of Deep Lake is the high levels of gene exchange that take place there. But this isn’t the only compelling lake in Antarctica. The continent consists of upwards of ...

Caption View down an ultra-clean hot water borehole drilled into Mercer Subglacial Lake, a freshwater lake located more than 1000 metres beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The lake is hydrologically ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau. Understanding such ...

The director of Russia's Antarctic program, Valery Lukin said that drilling at Antarctica's Lake Vostok stopped on Feb. 5 at a depth of 3,720.47 meters. The operation had to be halted so that the ...

1139-1155 (17 pages) Lake Untersee, Antarctica, is a freshwater perennially ice covered ... and Lyons, W. B. 1998. Evidence for deep circulation in two perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes. Limnol.

extends over the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Unlike some other Antarctic ice shelves, FRIS currently appears stable in our warming world. However, previous ocean modeling has shown that relatively warm ...