Five tipping points — the disintegration of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, coral reef die-offs, collapse of the Labrador-Irminger Seas convection and abrupt permafrost thaw ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place.

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 ...

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

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Through satellite gravimetry analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) mass changes from 2002 to 2023, striking mass change rates ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Peter Fretwell, mapping specialist and co-author at BAS, said in a statement: "In general, it's become clear the Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker than we originally realised and has a larger volume ...

At its thickest point, the ice sheet in Antarctic is almost 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) thick. | Credit: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) The new research also reveals, in unprecedented detail ...