When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Coastal communities worldwide face a slow-moving but potentially irreversible threat from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where ...

Half a kilometer beneath the surface of one of the most remote stretches of West Antarctica, a research team spent weeks ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of melting. Researchers dig into this "after" period and see how it relates to ...

Seems like the clock is ticking on Antarctica’s ice sheet.When we look at Antarctica, most of us see a far-off, icy world where the penguins live — we don’t think it has anything to do with our own ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics are governed by the balance between snow accumulation, basal melting, ice flow and calving, shaped by atmospheric temperature, oceanic heat flux and bedrock topography.

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...