The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...
"We found that the whole shelf suddenly moves about 6 to 8 centimeters [2.4 to 3.1 inches] once or twice a day, triggered by a slip on an ice stream that flows into the ice shelf," says geophysicist ...
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ...
Alas, Antarctica, which accounts for 90 percent of the world’s ice, is not melting. Just the opposite ... free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.” ...
A new study of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica ... shelves stretching out across the ocean act as natural borders for glaciers and streams on land, slowing down the melting rate and increasing ice ...
A University of Alabama associate professor of geological sciences is part of a seven-year project dedicated to researching a ...
New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study sheds new light on the ...
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...