Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse of the ...
The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and ... and erosion. The faster those ice shelves melt, the sooner this threat becomes a harsh reality, forcing difficult choices about ...
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...
A recent study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf has revealed a fascinating discovery: the entire ice sheet moves forward once ...
As the climate warms and Antarctica's glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to ...
Compared to other ice shelves in West Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf has very little melting at its base due to the very cold ocean waters that travel through the ocean gateway below. But this ...
Can it reach through Antarctica’s cold, fast currents of air and water ... But that’s enough to begin melting ice shelves, which are at or below freezing point. As you’d expect, the longer ...
"In the absence of sea ice, the ocean swell can break apart ice shelves faster than they ... If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet alone were to break up and melt into the sea, it would elevate global ...
Scientists have just uncovered a troubling cycle that’s accelerating the Antarctica ice melting even faster than we thought, ...