If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the whole planet by reflecting sunlight back into space. So its loss inevitably will affect the climate and weather beyond the Arctic, but precisely how remains unclear.

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year ... Antarctic Ice Sheets (Figure 1), which can be divided into predominately terrestrial and marine ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the ... point for incorporating more complexity into ice sheet models. This work is the first ...