By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science We’ve found hell on Earth, and it’s frozen over. A team of geoscientists at the University of Edinburgh have found 91 volcanoes hiding beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which – when added to the 47 fiery mountains already known about – makes this the densest concentration of volcanoes anywhere on Planet Earth….
A Piece Of Ice Weighing A Trillion Tonnes Just Broke Away From Antarctica
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science The day scientists have been waiting for has finally arrived. A huge part of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded, has just broken away from Antarctica and is now drifting in the ocean. This section of the ice shelf is roughly 6,000 kilometers square (2,300 miles…