New publication of a research article in Nature Communications

A paper first-authored by the director, Shin Sugiyama, is now published in 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 Short clip：https://youtu.be/7Dr_G_2SuN8