Researchers detected over 100 volcanoes beneath the Antarctic ice, located along an active volcanic rift system known as the West Antarctic Rift System, which has been active since the age of ...

Rift in Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica, photographed from the air during a NASA Operation IceBridge survey flight on Nov. 4, 2016. This rift is the second to form in the center of ...

Our planet, however, has given us evidence that the rift could be a significant problem ... is currently unaccounted for in models of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet," the researchers write in ...