Tag Archives: British Antarctic Survey

Beyond EPICA Project’s Third Ice Core Drilling Season Begins in Antarctica

(IN BRIEF) The Beyond EPICA 23/24 team has initiated the third drilling season at Little Dome C in Antarctica, located near the Concordia Station. This international research project, led by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council … Read the full press release

Research led by the University of Leeds produced the first complete assessment of Antarctic ice sheet elevation change

LEEDS, 19-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year – twice as much as when it was last surveyed. A team of scientists from the … Read the full press release