Glacial retreat caused a wave of volcanic activity in southern Chile as the last Ice Age came to an end, according to new ...

“Failing to account for subglacial water means global sea-level rise projections are underestimated by up to two metres by 2300,” Dr Chen Zhao, an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the ...

Scientists have made an astonishing discovery after finding lobster-like creatures beneath the depths of the Antarctic ice.It ...

Mars is extremely cold, and for subglacial water to exist on the planet in the liquid form, there would have to be a source of heat, such as geothermal energy.

Lava flows from the Bardarbunga volcano on August 31, 2014. Reuters. So it seems the greatest threat from Antarctica's many volcanoes will be if several erupt within a few decades of each other.

Gathering data on the biogeochemistry of these systems is an undertaking of Antarctic proportions. Trista Vick-Majors, assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University, ...

On Earth, subglacial lakes affect the shape of the overlying ice sheet i.e. the surface topography. The water in subglacial lakes lowers friction between the ice sheet and its bed, ...

Iceland closed airspace over the Bardarbunga volcano as a precaution Saturday after the volcano began erupting under the ice of Europe's largest glacier. Authorities did not shut down airspace ...

Feb. 17 (UPI) --Life deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheets may be more common than previously thought. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, subglacial lakes on ...

Scientists recently drilled 3,500 feet deep into the Antarctic ice to the subglacial Lake Mercer —a lake that had been untouched for thousands of years.; They pulled up samples of water, ice ...