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An international team is on a mission to find out if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is doomed, or whether there is time to prevent 4-5 metres of sea-level rise.

A science team is tractor-sledding heavy equipment towards the innermost point of the Ross Ice Shelf to bring back critical information for the world's coastal communities. Eloise Gibson reports.

An international team is on a mission to find out if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is already doomed, or whether there is time to prevent 4-5m of sea-level rise.

ANZIC Expeditioner, Dr Linda Armbrecht, is part of an international team probing the sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Das internationale antarktische Forschungsbohrprojekt "Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to Two Degrees of Warming" (SWAIS 2C)", an dem sich auch die BGR beteiligt, geht in die nächste Phase.

Drilling deeper than anyone has drilled before, researchers hope they will find useful secrets - and vindication for their personal sacrifice.   NB this article is behind a paywall.

Durham University is part of an international project pushing new boundaries to understand how the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet could respond to climate change.

While Santa’s been busy at the North Pole, a team of international experts have dealt some serious scientific action to the South Pole. Original article

Precis It's nearly Christmas, even in Antarctica!

Turquet’s octopuses, a species of cephalopod found in the Southern Ocean, were able to move around a melted West Antarctic Ice Sheet as recently as 125,000 years ago, according to new…