“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing net mass to the ocean, mostly through increased melting from the atmosphere and the ocean. Scientists are increasingly alarmed at the changes ...

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this ...

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2, 2025 — A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that ... Deliver First Joint Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Dec. 20, 2024 — Scientists have ...

As glacial ice flows, stress fractures that run tens of metres deep form in the glacier’s surface (pictured). These crevasses increase the rate of ice movement, which creates more cracks in a ...

"Long considered more stable than the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, this event added an exclamation point to the accelerating narrative of unexpected changes being observed in East Antarctica," she said, ...

Law Dome is a medium size, approximately circular, (200 km dia., 1390 m high) ice sheet situated at the edge of the main East Antarctic ice sheet. The data in this set include cores drilled between ...

The Icy Wilderness Under Threat The Arctic and Antarctic are two of the most unique and fragile ecosystems on our planet.

In a new study, my colleagues and I mapped crevasses across the entirety of the Greenland ice sheet in 2016 and 2021. To do this, we used the ArcticDEM: three-dimensional surface maps of the polar ...

A third method shared by Douglas MacAyeal, professor emeritus from the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Science, is to pump water on parts of the Antarctic ice sheet in the winter.