Just a few more decades of ocean warming would be enough to destabilise the relatively small region of ice by the Amundsen Sea − starting…
Antarctic ice sheet
'What we call the eternal ice of Antarctica unfortunately turns out not to be eternal at all,' says lead author of new study A new…
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science -- and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious…
New research underway indicates that at least three feet of global sea level rise is near certain, NASA scientists warned Wednesday. That's the higher range…
Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of six meters may…
If a new scientific paper is proven accurate, the international target of limiting global temperatures to a 2°C rise this century will not be nearly…
A surprisingly high amount of geothermal heating has been measured underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…
A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at…
An international team of scientists has found a dramatic ice sheet collapse at the end of the ice age before last caused widespread climate changes…
Antarctic glaciers once thought relatively stable are starting to melt. Evidence from a five-year satellite study of the frozen rivers on the southern Antarctic Peninsula…
A group of scientists, led by a team from the University of Bristol, UK has observed a sudden increase of ice loss in a previously…
Study after study shows that Antarctica isn't in great shape. Its ice shelves are disappearing and its ice sheets are collapsing, hastening swiftly rising sea levels. Sounds terrible. But…