Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series with a talk by Richard B.

A team of scientists has uncovered a never-before-seen Antarctic ecosystem after a massive ice shelf collapse exposed a ... life beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The team was surprised by the ...

Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was ...

Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see ...

Developed by an international team led by the British Antarctic ... indicators of ice sheet stability because when they ...

A new report released last week by a research group consisting of numerous top climatologists paints a frightful picture of the possible future of the world’s water levels. The report furthermore ...

Other researchers suggest the Antarctic Circumpolar ... level rise and further ice sheet melt. “There’s still a lot of uncertainty about whether the AMOC will collapse or not, so it might ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, home to the world's largest ice reserves outside the Arctic and Antarctic, is experiencing an unprecedented crisis as gla ...

However, simulating real Antarctic ice in a lab can be deceptively simplistic ... the ice’s properties may underestimate or misjudge how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets can collapse or produce icebergs – ...

Rising seas, fueled by Antarctic ice sheet melt, are increasing flood risks for coastal ... and we may be approaching irreversible tipping points. The collapse of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier — often ...