A paper first authored by the director, Shin Sugiyama. is now published on Nature Communications. They report the first evidence of meltwater driven acceleration in Antarctica. Subglacial fauna was also captured by a video camera lowered into a borehole.
Article：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72724-x
Hokudai HP：https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2026/06/post-2307.html
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