Tag: ice

Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day

OCEANOGRAPHY
In Antarctica, heavy glaciers are always on the move. Conveyor belts of ice, known as ice streams, are the corridors of faster flow that...

Ice melt barriers disappearing at twice the rate compared to 50 years ago, study finds

OCEANOGRAPHY
Undersea anchors of ice that help prevent Antarctica's land ice from slipping into the ocean are shrinking at more than twice the rate compared...

Ice cores provide first documentation of rapid Antarctic ice loss in the past

OCEANOGRAPHY
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk...

Greenland’s Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change

ENVIRONMENT
The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering...

Researchers find Antarctic ice shelves thinner than previously thought

OCEANOGRAPHY
As global ice dams begin to weaken due to warming temperatures, a new study suggests that prior attempts to evaluate the mass of the...

Ozone treaty is delaying first ice-free Arctic summer, shows study

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A 1987 global deal to protect the ozone layer is delaying the first ice-free Arctic summer by up to 15 years, new research shows....

Why Antarctic ice shelves are losing their mass and how it leads to global sea level rise

OCEANOGRAPHY
The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) contribute largely to global mean sea level (GMSL) changes, though the seas surrounding the...

Scientists in Arctic race to preserve ‘ice memory’

EARTH
Scientists camped in the Arctic are set to start drilling to save samples of ancient ice for analysis before the frozen layers melt away...

How thick is Antarctic ice, and what is underneath?

OCEANOGRAPHY
Ice at the edge of the Antarctic continent hosts a flourishing ecosystem. Seals and penguins breed, fish mature, and algae thrive, all thanks to...

Antarctica sea ice melts to a record low

OCEANOGRAPHY
The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica's ground ice sheet to...

Drilling campaign reaches a depth of 808 meters in the Antarctic ice sheet

OCEANOGRAPHY
In Antarctica, the second drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA—Oldest Ice project, at the remote field site Little Dome C, has been successfully completed....

Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not ‘inevitable’: study

OCEANOGRAPHY
The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet—which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise—is not "inevitable", scientists said Monday following research that tracked...
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