Britain-sized Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than feared
The high cliffs of Thwaites Glacier taken from the British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft (Rob Larter/British Antarctic…
Scientists discover aggressive melting of Doomsday Glacier
The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level…
Ocean Water Is Seeping Under the Doomsday Glacier—and Its Sea-Level Threat Just Doubled
One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers is emerging as a potentially greater driver of future sea-level rise than…
An Unmapped Region of Antarctica Could Be Harboring a Major Threat
A vast region of East Antarctica contains enough ice to cause a dramatic rise in global sea levels…
Greenland and Antarctica have lost more than 11 trillion tons of ice since 1979
Greenland and Antarctica lost about 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice between 1979 and 2023, raising global sea…
Polar Ice Sheets Have Lost 11 Trillion Tons of Ice—and ‘Speeding’ Glaciers Are Driving the Loss
As greenhouse gas emissions push Earth’s temperature to new heights, polar ice sheets are rapidly melting away. Numerous…
Sea level rise threatens more than a quarter of a million properties as bill surges to $855b
Climate change means Australia’s love of the coast is facing a multi-billion-dollar reckoning, research suggests, as rising seas…
Sudden sea level rise — tied to El Niño — is about to hit the California coast
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Warm ocean water is melting a giant Antarctic glacier from below. Scientists want to stop it with an 80km underwater curtain |
Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due…
Antarctica missing nearly Argentina-sized sea ice, new study warns of faster global warming
A new study presented by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) suggests Antarctica could play a greater role in…
Thwaites Glacier: Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is to ‘disintegrate’: Scientists warn the ice shelf could break apart — What does that mean for the future?
Go to the frozen edge of West Antarctica (or just Google it), and you’ll find Thwaites Glacier —…
World will cross 1.5°C warming limit by 2030 if emissions continue at current rate – report
The world is edging dangerously close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming threshold, with human-induced warming reaching 1.37°C…