Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

Yet, our understanding of the dynamics and melting of this ice sheet is very limited. For the first time, Ehrenfeucht et al. [2025] provide the continental-scale subglacial hydrology under the ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of ...

All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United ...

The left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet as of March 15, 2025. The middle map is a close up of the Antarctic Peninsula through the same time frame. The graph shows the daily ...

The island is shedding ice for the 28th year in a row, and scientists estimate that it has lost more than 5 trillion tons of ice since 1992. The Greenland ice sheet contains about 8% of the planet ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar. 3, 2025 — Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current ...

Within glacial ice sheets, there are streams of ice, sometimes called ice rivers, that move much faster than the surrounding ice. If you’re having trouble imagining how ice moves inside ice, Elizabeth ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help ...

Kristin Poinar can speak to the media about climate change, ice sheets and sea level rise. As a researcher, she uses computer modeling to understand how Earth’s ice sheets are shrinking and ...