Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...
When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.
Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to ...