A new study finds Antarctica gained mass for the first time in decades, reversing previous loss trends and briefly offsetting ...

New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions of North America melted – a discovery has implications for modern ice sheets and glaciers in the face ...

Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant ...

Mathieu Morlighem, a Dartmouth glaciologist who studies ice sheet physics, believes MISI may be inevitable. "In all our ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

In doing so, the mission offers insight into ice-thickness change due to thinning and melting. Since the surface of ice sheets can also ... processes hidden from view, such as subglacial lake ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

The image, featuring a first-person view of eight sled dogs ... However, in 2019, it was losing over 568 billion tons of ice per year. Almost the entire ice sheet was affected, and the loss ...

Ice loss from lakes that freeze over in the winter impacts societal traditions and economic activity, according to a study by Science. As Earth heats up, glaciers and ice sheets are slowly ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.