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1. Update from Thwaites Glacier: when science doesn’t go your way

   Researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and South Korea (KOPRI) have concluded a highly ambitious field operation at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.

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2. Scientists’ drilling mission on remote and inaccessible glacier

   A team of researchers from the UK and Korea has reached the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica where they will drill through the glacier to directly observe how warm ocean water is melting it from below.

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3. Antarctic drilling missions seek to understand climate and ice dynamics

   Over 30 researchers from international institutes are working on ice core drilling campaigns in Antarctica to probe the ice sheet’s behaviour, carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean, and the Earth’s climate history.

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4. Grim outlook for Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

   New science briefing summarises results of the ambitious international collaboration to study Antarctica’s most worrying glacier 

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5. New insights into the bed beneath remote Antarctic glacier

   Scientists have discovered a landscape of rocky hills and smooth plains beneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.

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6. New field season on Thwaites Glacier underway

   Thirty seven scientists and over 24 support staff are arriving in Antarctica to work on Thwaites Glacier.

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7. Antarctica’s glacial border moves for miles with the tide

   New measurements of how the boundary between onshore glacier and floating ice shelf glides back-and- forth could help predict melting

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8. 60 years of Antarctic ice sheet data released

   In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralised and standardised format. […]

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9. Cracking Antarctica’s Iceberg Code

   RIFT-TIP is investigating iceberg calving on the Brunt Ice Shelf. It uses field monitoring, lab testing, and modelling to predict when icebergs will form.

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10. Scientists named on TIME100 list for Antarctic research

    Scientists Dr Peter Davis (British Antarctic Survey) and Dr Britney Schmidt (Cornell University) have been named in the 2023 TIME100 annual list of the 100 most influential people in the […]

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11. Extreme snowfall in West Antarctica driving sea-level rise

    A new study highlights how extreme snowfall events significantly alter the amount of ice lost by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. A team of scientists from British Antarctic Survey, along […]

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12. New close-up view of melting beneath Thwaites Glacier

    The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. Novel observations from where the […]

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