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…
West Antarctic winter ice fails to form in Bellingshausen Sea in area ‘size of France’
Scientists say a region on the west side of Antarctica is missing a large chunk of winter sea…
A ‘triple whammy’ of chaos has triggered a downward spiral in Antarctica, scientists discover
For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the…
228-meter sediment core may predict future Antarctic ice sheet loss
A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under…
‘A one–two punch on the system’
A new study suggests Antarctic ice melt is being accelerated by a dangerous double force, with warming air…
‘What happened in the past is likely to recur’
Researchers analyzing ancient seafloor sediments discovered that West Antarctica’s ice sheet has collapsed and regrown several times over…