The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

As the ice melts, the pressure in the magma chambers eases and the compressed magma can expand, leading to eruptions.

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

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The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 ...

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate ...

Researchers from Brown University conducted 4,000 computer simulations to examine how ice sheet loss influences Antarctica's buried volcanoes.

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...