{"id":1181,"date":"2025-04-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/how-hidden-lakes-threaten-antarctic-ice-sheet-stability\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:00:00","slug":"how-hidden-lakes-threaten-antarctic-ice-sheet-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/how-hidden-lakes-threaten-antarctic-ice-sheet-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"How hidden lakes threaten Antarctic Ice Sheet stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/04\/thwaites_glacier_from_sentinel-1\/26646566-1-eng-GB\/Thwaites_Glacier_from_Sentinel-1_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1 \" \/><\/p>\n<p>For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of Antarctic ice, owing to the climate crisis, is, sadly, no longer surprising. However, satellites do more than just track the accelerating flow of glaciers towards the ocean and measure ice thickness.<\/p>\n<p>New research highlights how ESA\u2019s CryoSat mission has been used to uncover the hidden impact of subglacial lakes \u2013 vast reservoirs of water buried deep under the ice \u2013 that can suddenly drain into the ocean in dramatic outbursts and affect ice loss.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of Antarctic ice, owing to the climate crisis, is, sadly, no longer surprising. However, satellites do more than just track the accelerating flow of glaciers towards the ocean and measure ice thickness. New research highlights how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}