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

Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell ...

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years ...

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ... 2024 — An atmospheric river brought warm, moist ...

Discover why Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth, with an average annual precipitation of just 50 millimetres.

The frozen river is 110 kilometres ... while flow is how fast the ice is moving downstream. Both melt and faster flow would contribute to sea level rises. Australian Antarctic Division field ...

Additionally, intense atmospheric rivers have been identified as a significant factor in destabilizing ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula ... increased surface melt, contributing to ...

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ...