The influence of evaporation from the ice-free areas in the Southern Ocean has not yet been taken into account in climate models. Apparently, it contributes significantly to snowfall over the ice sheet. Photo: Michael Wenger Rising temperatures and the decline in sea...
The floating Filchner-Ronne ice shelf’s grounding line lies several hundred kilometres south of its front (visible in this 2017 aerial picture). Image: Nathan Kurtz / NASA If we maintain the current climate, the rate of melting of the Antarctic glaciers will...
The 20-nation Ambition on Melting Ice group is meeting in Bonn as countries gather to assess the Paris climate-agreement pledges (Photo: UNFCC) Growing evidence from Antarctica suggests that even if countries hit the lower target for temperature increases set by the...
Thwaites Glacier is the cork in the bottle of the West Antarctic Ice sheet. Removing it would spell disaster for low-lying coastal areas and small islands (Photo: David Vaughan) Small islands and low-lying countries that are threatened by sea level rise are currently...
A Landsat-8 image of Thwaites Glacier. It is one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise. Photo: NASA/USGS Marks in the seafloor dating from the last ice age show that ice sheets can retreat up to 600 meters per day during a warming climate, according to...
