During the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, according to Princeton University researchers who came to one overall ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2015
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One of the biggest unknowns in understanding the effects of climate change today is the melting rate of glacial ice in Antarctica. Scientists agree rising atmospheric and ocean temperatures could destabilize these ice sheets, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2015
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The Earth's crust under Iceland is rebounding as global warming melts the island's great ice caps, a University of Arizona-led team reports in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2015
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A new model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown that despite its apparent stability, the massive ice sheet covering most of Greenland is more sensitive to climate change than earlier estimates ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2014
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The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years to come. This is shown in a study ...
Environment
May 5, 2014
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An international team of scientists has discovered that the last remaining stable portion of the Greenland ice sheet is stable no more.
Environment
Mar 16, 2014
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New research, published this week in Science, suggests that the largest single contributor to global sea level rise, a glacier of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, may continue thinning for decades to come. Geologists from the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise. However, the chain of events and physical processes that contributed ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2014
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It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around.
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2013
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Scientists had feared that melt-water which trickles down through the ice could dramatically speed up the movement of glaciers as it acts as a lubricant between the ice and the ground it moves over.
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2013
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