Since the late 1990s, the baseline of Thwaites Glacier has retreated inland by 14 kilometers. Much of the ice sheet is below sea level, making it vulnerable to rapid, irreversible ice loss. Global sea levels could then rise by more than half a meter within centuries....
Last week, more than 8 billion tonnes melted from Greenland’s ice sheet on each of two consecutive days. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly again this year – on Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, a total of nearly 17...
Glaciers such as Eqip Sermia in the central part of West Greenland have been under close observation by science teams for years. This is because the ice streams have continued to retreat due to increased melting. Their behaviour forms a kind of early warning system...
Polar bear on Arctic sea ice (Photo: AWI / Stefan Hendricks) The cause of the speed and severity of abrupt climate changes during the last cold period lies in the ocean. This is confirmed by a new study by AWI scientist Henrik Sadatzki, now published in Proceedings of...
Crab fisherman in Chukotka, the Russian side of the Bering Strait. In the future, there will be restrictions to the Russian favourite activity: ice fishing. (Foto: Heiner Kubny) The ice cover of the Bering Sea has reached new lows in the winters of 2018 and 2019,...
