Antarctica

Antarctica without Ice Shelves Leads to Rapid Multi-Meter Sea Level Rise

Journal of Glaciology, September 14 Collapse of ice shelves neighbouring the Antarctic Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute 1…

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WAIS Ice Shelves Show Early Signs of Irreversible Disintegration

PNAS, September 14 Extensive open fractures have developed in the ice shelves of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in…

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Huge Pathways of Warm Water Found Under Major Antarctic Glacier

New maps collected under the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier and further offshore reveal deep (> 1000 m) and wide…

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Majority of Antarctic Ice Shelves Sensitive to Meltwater Fracturing

Nature, August 26 Antarctic ice shelves - floating ice in contact with land ice - are both critical to maintaining ice…

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Ice Sheet Loss from Greenland and Antarctica Track Worst-case IPCC AR5 Projections

Nature Climate Change, August 31   The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have increased global sea level by 12.3 mm…

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Unexpected Basal Ocean Melting in East Antarctica

Nature Communications, August 24 The floating Shirase Ice Tongue (a long and narrow projection of ice, connected an ice basin…

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Basal Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves

Nature Geoscience, August 10 Between 1994 and 2018, Antarctic ice shelves (floating ice connected to the land-based Antarctic ice sheet)…

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First Active Methane Leak Observed off Antarctica

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, July 22. A team of scientists has discovered the first active leak of methane through…

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