East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem unmeltable. It survived earlier warm periods intact. Lately it ...

The project is still theoretical. This sort of ice-sheet intervention "today would be at the edge of human capabilities," the study's two authors wrote. But it's possible that catastrophic ice ...

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 ...

The different types of moraine include terminal moraine, which marks the end of an ice sheet or valley glacier, and lateral moraine, which forms at the edge of a glacier at the valley side.

Behind every successful curling match is a team of volunteers just like Chad Hall, working tirelessly to ensure the ice ...

enabling more reliable predictions about future ice-sheet movement. Professor David Prior, of the Department of Geology, says the study is significant. "There are lots of things that contribute to ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

Aschwanden, A., Fahnestock, M. A., Truffer, M., Brinkerhoff, D. J., Hock, R., Khroulev, C., Mottram, R., and Khan, S. A.. 2019 “Contribution of the Greenland Ice ...