The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...
The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...
As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...
In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...
Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...
Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...
A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...
The study shows that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap, located in northwest Greenland, completely melted around 7,000 years ago. This ...
Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...
Core samples from under Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice sheet suggest the region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our ...
When talking about climate change, sea level rise is often brought up as one of the devastating consequences. Melting glaciers and emaciated polar bears have become infamous images over the decades, ...