The rise in sea level caused by the melting of ice masses on land means that low-lying areas are flooded. This should also make the oldest Antarctic station Orcadas history. Much worse, millions of people will lose their homes. Picture: Michael Wenger Scientists have...
The Greenland ice sheet only appears to be a large closed sheet of ice. In truth, numerous pools, streams, and even rivers and lakes of meltwater crisscross the surface. This water, both liquid and frozen, plays an essential role in the ice sheet’s response to...
Large glacial fronts of ice sheets once also covered large parts of the Arctic Ocean and exerted pressure on the seafloor in the shelf region. Nowadays, the ice barriers are all in retreat, also on Svalbard (pictured: Austfonna). Picture: Michael Wenger The melting of...
The second largest continuous mass of ice on earth is located on Greenland. An estimated 2.6 trillion tons of ice lie on the island. It’s hard to believe that this amount of ice can melt away at all. But the results of the new study show just how fragile this...
Looking across the ice surfaces of the Arctic Ocean or an ice sheet, it is hard to see that these icy worlds are under massive pressure. However, despite the seemingly endless ice areas, the amounts of ice that have melted away due to global warming are unimaginably...