Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

1 of 2 NASA image of blue meltwater pools on the Amery Ice Sheet in Antarctica on January 1. These pools may weaken the ice shelf if the water leaks through fissures into the ice. NASA Earth ...

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

Recently, ocean robots, including autonomous underwater vehicles and tethered ... in our understanding of the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to global sea level rise.

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and stronger If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably ...

The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The core, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end to end or six and a half times taller than the Empire ...

It's been a year since the underwater vehicle Ran vanished beneath a glacier in Antarctica. Owned by the University of ...

Melting ice may cause dozens of volcanoes beneath Antarctica's colossal ice sheet to erupt and trigger a troubling feedback loop of environmental damage, scientists have warned. A new study by ...

reaching the depth of 2,800 meters—where the Antarctic ice sheet meets the bedrock. The extracted ice preserves an unprecedented record of Earth’s climate history, continuous information on ...