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Mass loss of the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been driven primarily by the thinning of the floating ice shelves that fringe the ice sheet1, reducing their buttressing potential and causing land ice to accelerate into the ocean2. Observations of ice-shelf thickness change by satellite altimetry stretch back only to 1992 (refs. 1,3–5) and previous information about thinning remains unquantified. However, extending the record of ice-shelf thickness change is possible by proxy, by measuring the change in area of the surface expression of pinning points—local bathymetric highs...

Telenor announced on Tuesday that it has established what it says is the world's southernmost mobile base station in Antarctica, providing coverage for the Norwegian Polar Institute's Troll research station.

A research group led by Stockholm University is travelling to Antarctica. The goal is to investigate how the continent's ice sheets have changed his....

When a planeload of scientists landed on the ice at Troll Airfield last week, they arrived in what the media claimed is the largest airplane ever to land in Antarctica.

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