Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...
The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...
The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...
Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...
A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.
New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...
When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...
In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...