Antarctica is known for its bone-chilling cold — a place where every living thing is coated in streaks of snow and ice. But did you know that hidden beneath its frozen surface lie hundreds of volcanoes? The real concern is this: as the ice melts, could the sleeping magma monsters below be awakened?
It’s widely understood that the planet is currently facing what’s being called “global boiling”, a result of human activity. This climate crisis is causing the Antarctic glaciers to melt at a rate much faster than scientists had predicted.
Which raises an intriguing question: could the volcanoes buried deep beneath the ice sheets start to heat up and erupt again? That very question has captured the attention of scientists — and they now have some answers to share.
Enter Allie N. Cunnings and her research team, who ran 4,000 computer simulations to investigate how the loss of Antarctic ice might affect the volcanoes concealed beneath the glaciers.
