A team of researchers from Western Washington University has arrived on the icy edges of Greenland. They are spending 12 days ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

An ice sheet is a mass of glacial land ice extending more than 20,000 square miles. Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.

In an ever-warming climate, rippling effects or chain reactions could lead to altered weather patterns across the globe thanks to a melting Antarctic ice sheet.

Questions about the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are a major ... That reset the U-234 concentration to low background ... the only place where Antarctic glaciers terminate on land.

The study suggests that instead of Greenland’s melting ice contributing 10.5 feet (3.2 m) to sea level rise over the past 20,000 years, the Greenland Ice Sheet has contributed around 15.1 feet ...

In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than 2500m below sea level. The land would be seabed if the ice sheet were not there.

Ice shelves like Thwaites are floating ice that hold back land-based ice sheets. Ice shelves play an important role in buttressing, or slowing the flow of glaciers to the sea.

The largest ice sheet on Earth was stable throughout the last warm period in geologic time, indicating it should hold up as temperatures continue to rise. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the world’s ...

“This is missing physics, which isn’t in our ice sheet models. They don’t have the ability to simulate melting beneath grounded ice, which we think is happening," Bradley said.

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet did not retreat significantly over land during the warm Pliocene epoch, approximately 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were ...