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By Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol and Christian Breyer, Lappeenranta University of…
By Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol and Christian Breyer, Lappeenranta University of…
From Watts Up With That? Change in Antarctic Ice Shelf Area from 2009 to…
Change in Antarctic Ice Shelf Area from 2009 to…
Our observations show that Antarctic ice shelves gained 661 Gt of ice mass over the past decade, whereas the steady-state…
The surface of Thwaites Glacier has been falling by up to 3 feet a year. West Antarctica could soon begin a multi-century…
Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic wedding cake, the frosting of snow on top…
New studies show fractures on surface ice and warm seawater melting the ice from underneath. That’s a harbinger of a coming…
Climate change caused by past and ongoing emissions from fossil fuel burning poses sizable risks for current and future…
Scientists believe Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier is teetering on the brink of collapse, though just how fast that could…
Enlarge / Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier sheds some icebergs. Could we... sort of... put them back? (credit: NASA Earth…
Nick Golledge, Victoria University of…
New study shows that the land underneath a part of West Antarctica is rising five times faster than expected as the ice melts…
Climate change projections often focus on 2100. But the geological record shows that unless we rapidly reduce greenhouse gas…
by David SprattFirst published 23 January 2017; updated 17 February 2017 Read in FrenchDOWNLOAD REPORTOVERVIEWThe Amundsen Sea…
By Brenda Ekwurzel, Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned…
Losing all the ice shelves of Antarctica would be like losing each flying buttress that supported a gothic building. Collapse…
Antarctica’s ice has been melting, most likely because of a warming climate. Now, newly published research shows the rate of…
The hulking West Antarctic ice sheet has been worrying scientists for decades. Global warming, as we already know, is causing…
If we do not plan, now, to limit carbon emissions beyond this century, we will foolishly raise the oceans dramatically for…
This is a list of papers on ice sheet collapse. The list is not complete, and will most likely be updated in future in order to…
This is a re-post from RealClimate by Jonathan Bamber at U of…
When projecting how sea levels could rise over the coming centuries, one of the most difficult factors for scientists to gauge…
The recent paper by Zwally et al. in the Journal of Glaciology has been widely reported as evidence that Antarctic is gaining…
If the collapse of several major glaciers on West Antarctica has started – as research suggests – the whole western side of the…
Let’s play a game. It’s called “Hollywood or Real Life?” The rules are self-explanatory: In a world where technology is cutting p…
Guest post by Sarah G. Purkey and Gregory C. Johnson, University of Washington …
It was a big year for robot penguins, snake penises, and space exploration. Sadly not all at the same time.
Climate science never stops developing. Over the course of the year we've covered a myriad of scientific studies, some of…
From the Chronicle (What the Year's Most-Noticed Research Papers Tell Us About Ourselves): Skim the 100 most-discussed…
Earth systems are known to switch suddenly without warning. Take the weather for example, where one moment it could be a bright…
The marine-based Thwaites Glacier in Western Antarctica. AFP/Getty Images Earlier this year, a pair of alarming studies emerged…
The marine-based Thwaites Glacier in Western Antarctica. AFP/Getty…
by C. Forbes Tompkins and Kelly Levin via World Resources InstituteThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC…
A new study may help mankind understand the gravity of climate change. West Antarctica has lost so much ice between 2009 and…
Klimaforscher haben seit den 1970ern davor gewarnt: Jetzt ist der Westantarktische Eisschild instabil geworden und hat seinen…
This is a guest post by Richard J. Blaustein , a freelance science and environ...
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting, and new research points to its collapse in as little as two hundred years. The likely…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Roz…
“The high-resolution records that we’re getting and the high-resolution models we’re able to make now are sort of moving the…
One of the main reasons our government invests in scientific research is so that we can apply the findings to our nation’s…
The rapid increase in the loss of ice in West Antarctica is really eating the heart out of Anthony Watts and his band of…
Two new papers, in Science, and in Geophysical Research Letters, demonstrate that Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica has reached a…
Two new papers, in Science, and in Geophysical Research Letters, demonstrate that Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica has reached a…
Anthony Watts has now written not one, not two, not three, not four but at least five articles protesting the melting of the…
Melting ice has filled the newspapers over the past couple of weeks, with a deluge of new research into how the planet's ice…
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You may have heard the news: two teams of scientists claiming that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been irreversibly…
You may have heard the news: two teams of scientists claiming that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been irreversibly…
A study recently published in Science—one of the top scientific journals—terrifyingly explains that “[g]laciers along the…
Antarctica’s uncertain fuse, A “weak underbelly,” said Hughes. Pine Island and Thwaites, Thrown open, the gates? As humans…
En línea con los resultados de otros estudios recientes sobre los que hemos hablado en las páginas de Noticiasdelaciencia.com…
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds enough water to raise global seas by several feet, is thinning. Scientists have been…
Two new papers point to eventual complete loss of glaciers, but it will take centuries or more to occur.
Yesterday, I described new research suggesting that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be in the early stages of irreversible…
Collapse, irreversible, unstoppable, catastrophic: Eye-catching words like these pepper recent media coverage of two…
Gastbeitrag von Matthias Mengel - Gleich zwei neue Studien geben Hinweise darauf, dass der antarktische Eisschild weniger…
The West Antarctica ice sheet, which holds enough water to raise global seas by several feet, has started to collapse. The good…
See a correction and update below. May 13 7:15 p.m. MDT | If you read ImaGeo regularly, you may have seen my post a couple of…
Various measurements have captured the West Antarctic ice sheet changing very rapidly in the region where it flows into the…
Sea level rise estimates are going to need to be revised upward: A portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that is home to some…
Antarctica's Thwaites glacier. …
A new study indicates that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in a state of irreversible decline. Over the past 40 years, the flow…