Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland ... given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed ...

While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

The most detailed map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled ... along the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic coastlines , and in the Transantarctic Mountains.

The new map, called Bedmap3 ... speedup of glaciers in West Antarctica and record melting from the Antarctic Peninsula. Even ...

They do worry, however, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might shrink enough to raise global sea levels appreciably in the coming centuries. The worst-case scenario is a complete collapse of the ...

I examine how large-scale atmospheric circulation over the Southern Ocean, including the coupling of low- and high-pressure systems, helps to drive warm and moist air masses onto the West Antarctic ...

But in our new research, we show the widespread collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is avoidable if we can keep global warming below the Paris target of 2℃. In West Antarctica, the interior ...

"Thwaites could easily trigger a runaway [West Antarctic] Ice Sheet collapse that would ultimately raise global sea level by about 3 meters," the other author of the study, Michael Wolovick ...

Through satellite gravimetry analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) mass changes from 2002 to 2023, striking mass change rates ...

West Antarctica, home to one of Earth's largest ice sheets, sits atop a volcanic hotspot known as the West Antarctic Rift. This region contains over 100 volcanic centers—many hidden beneath ice ...