One of Antarctica’s biggest glaciers will soon reach a point of irreversible melting. That would cause sea levels to rise at least 1.6 feet
By Aylin Woodward From Business Insider Antarctica’s glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates. This rapid ice loss contributes to rising sea-levels. In a new study, scientists found that the Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica will likely hit a point of irreversible melting,…
Antarctica’s once sleepy ice sheets have awoken. That’s bad
By Mark Kaufman From Mashable Antarctica — home to the greatest ice sheets on Earth — isn’t just melting significantly faster than it was decades ago. Great masses of ice that scientists once presumed were largely immune to melting are…
The Editor Speaks: Shouldn’t the sea level rise worry us?
“The Antarctic Ice Sheet is an important indicator of climate change and driver of sea-level rise. Here we combine satellite observations of its changing volume, flow and gravitational attraction with modelling of its surface mass balance to show that it…
Scientists have found nearly 100 volcanoes in Antarctica — which probably makes it the largest volcanic region on Earth
By Peter Dockrill, ScienceAlert From Business Insider Researchers have discovered what looks to be the largest volcanic region on Earth, revealing an invisible network of almost 100 unknown volcanoes lying hidden beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. A remote survey of…
The West Antarctic ice shelf is breaking apart from the inside
By Josh Hrala, ScienceAlert From Business Insider Last year, a massive 583-square-kilometre (225-square-mile) chunk of the Pine Island Glacier — a vast section of ice that holds the West Antarctic ice sheet together — broke free, heading out into the ocean to…
Hidden Antarctic volcanoes are expediting glacial melt
By Stephanie Pappas Live Science Contributor for LiveScience From Mashable Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you’ll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes. Now, a new study…
An alarming prediction about Antarctica made in 1978 is coming true
By Dina Spector From Business Insider Two new studies published on Monday report that the melting of the ice sheet in West Antarctica is unstoppable and could raise global sea levels by as much as 4 feet in the next…
