Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

A massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier buried much of the Swiss village of Blatten under ice, mud and rocks. The even was equivalent in force to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake, ...

The grounding line is the point at which glaciers on land transition to ice shelves and start to float. If the grounding line retreats, this can cause instability and even faster flow of the ice sheet ...

Using 80°C water pumped at high pressure, they melted a 30-centimeter-wide borehole through the ice sheet to ... loss from the Antarctic interior. “Our findings are therefore a prerequisite for ...

They drilled a 500-metre-deep hole through the Antarctic ice sheet until they reached water. They were able to film the watercourse beneath the ice and analyse its properties. These subglacial ...

Due to these rising temperatures, arctic ice is melting. As ice sheets disappear, humans and wildlife face issues like rising sea levels and the related effects of habitat and biodiversity loss. For ...

Cosmos reported that Vincennes Bay and Denham had suffered “intense” losses, suffering about 72.5 per cent surface melt and ... person stands on an ice sheet in the Antarctic.

Their findings warn that algae, whose pigments absorb heat from the Sun, may be accelerating the melting of Antarctic ice at a rate greater than previously thought. “It’s the first paper ...

A surprising surge in snowfall from 2021 to 2023 caused Antarctica to gain record amounts of ice, reversing 20 years of steady melting. This slowed global sea level rise by nearly 15% and sparked ...

Heat in the oceans and atmosphere is also driving melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which together hold enough fresh water to raise global sea levels by around 213 feet.

The melting ice caps ... The disappearance of sea ice changes the color of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans. This could have "considerable" consequences for certain marine organisms like algae ...