Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us ...
Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...
Antarctica, the world watches in stunned silence as nature displays its unstoppable power. The sight of an enormous slab of ...
When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that ...
A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive ...
In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled. However, not all ...
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...