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Local destabilization can cause complete loss of West Antarctica’s ice masses

The new publication for the first time shows the inevitable consequence of such an event. According to the computer simulations, a few decades of ocean warming…

Less ice, more water in Arctic Ocean by 2050s

“We hear all the time about how sea ice extent in the Arctic is going down,” says Katy Barnhart, who led the study while at CU-Boulder's Institute for Arctic…

Uncovering the secrets of ice that burns

Methane hydrates are a kind of ice that contains methane, and that form at certain depths under the sea or buried in permafrost. They can also form in…

NASA study: Mass gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet greater than losses

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that…

Land-facing, southwest Greenland Ice Sheet movement decreasing

Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a roughly 3,088-square-mile…

Nordic seas cooled 500,000 years before global oceans

The cooling of the Nordic Seas towards modern temperatures started in the early Pliocene, half a million years before the global oceans cooled. A new study of…

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