The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...
Scientists have just uncovered a troubling cycle that’s accelerating the Antarctica ice melting even faster than we thought, ...
"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 ...
New research has begun to shine a light on a period around 7,000 years ago when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet experienced ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's known that Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), a water mass that is up to 4°C above local freezing temperatures, is flowing beneath the ice shelves in West Antarctica and melting them from below.
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...