The Greenland ice sheet is falling apart – new study
We analysed 8,000 maps and found crevasses are increasing in size and depth.
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When an Antarctic iceberg the size of a country breaks away, what happens next?
A massive glacier tongue sticking out off the edge of the continent has been snapping off every 70 years.
Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate
Warming in the Arctic has now reached the northernmost sections of the Greenland ice sheet. After a long period of stability (more than 25 years), we have found in a new study of the region that the northeast…
New research shows how rapidly ice sheets can retreat – and what it could mean for Antarctic melting
Seafloor landforms reveal that ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres per day.
New theory on how six‑tonne Stonehenge rock was transported from Scotland thousands of years ago – by a glacier
Stonehenge has captured popular imagination for generations.
Rain is coming to Antarctica – here’s how it will change the frozen continent
In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, penguins and even scientists.
Antarctica’s ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise – what happens next is up to us
In a new study, we found that a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could collapse at 4°C of global warming.
Three things that might trigger massive ice sheet collapse
There could be an irreversible retreat of parts of the ice sheets, raising sea levels much faster than currently planned.
Narwhals are helping scientists map warm water hidden in Greenland’s fjords
Tags on these deep-diving whales are providing vital data from places research ships struggle to reach.
Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research
Humanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting.
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