While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater ... believed North America's Laurentide Ice Sheet disappeared very early in the Last ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell ... low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level rise alone could approach ...

Antarctic ice sheet background About 90% of the ice on Earth is located in Antarctica; if all this ice were to melt, the global sea level would rise by more than 50 meters. In addition, the ice ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a ... behavior of the larger Antarctic ice sheet. Autonomous underwater vehicles called gliders were also ...

Scientists found a rich community of fish, coral, octopus, anemones and sponges that previously sat beneath a sheet of ice 150 metres thick. The world's strongest ocean current could slow as ...

Our team finally made it to the ice sheet on April 8, after being delayed for almost two weeks due a series of storms. That day, we awoke to patches of blue sky over the village of Tasiilaq and were ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ice loss.

A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ice sheet. This water can lubricate the ice, allowing it to slide more rapidly toward the ocean. Our new research shows “subglacial ...

The MEaSUREs Greenland Quarterly Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat, Version 5 and MEaSUREs Greenland Monthly Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat, Version 5 data sets, ...

In January 2025, researchers on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) had to divert their plans after an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a ...