"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.
Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...
Surface melting for the Antarctic ice sheet appears to have set a record for the 46-year satellite observation period on January 2, 2025. All areas of the Antarctic coast that generally see ...
Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions ... The study highlights how the weight of the ice sheet acts as a cap on the magma below. When the ice melts, the overburden pressure ...
Like the glaciers that feed them, ice shelves are immense. Yet the ocean processes that control basal melting, and the fate of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, occur on the scale of millimetres.
An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expectedThe West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...
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