If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

(via PBS Terra) If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, but new evidence suggests that West Antarctica - ...

Scientists have discovered that underwater storms are drawing warm waters under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, potentially hastening its destruction.

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ...

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Ella Gilbert received funding from the British Antarctic Survey. Images of colossal chunks of ice plunging into the sea accompany almost every news story about climate change. It can often make the ...

NASA’s study found that the ice shelf in that area melted at a rate of more than 650 feet per year between 2014 and 2017. That is enormous by Antarctica’s standards, Rignot said. Before the ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of Atlantic Ocean currents that redistributes heat and nutrients between the tropics and the North Atlantic, is one of the planet's ...

New evidence suggests that West Antarctica - which holds around 5 METERS of sea level rise - is melting a lot faster than scientists once thought. Weathered is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...