New research reconstructing the topography of Antarctica shows that the continent has 25% less land above sea level than when ice first started to accumulate 34 million years ago.
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A New Source of Sea Level Rise from Greenland: Ice Slabs
Runoff from the Greenland ice sheet’s high elevations could double by 2100, thanks to solid layers of ice hiding just beneath the surface.
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Podcast: A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice
The radioactive remains of nuclear testing during the Cold War and from nuclear disasters like Chernobyl are still with us and can be found in some of the remotest glaciers on Earth.
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Drones Capture Iceland’s Shrinking Glaciers
Photographs of Iceland’s southern glaciers show pools of water where walls of ice once stood.
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Europe’s Mightiest Glaciers Are Melting
Here’s what a century of ice melt looks like on the Alps’ highest peak.
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Freshwater Pools Show Antarctica Is More Vulnerable Than We Thought
East Antarctica’s lakes cluster in patterns similar to those on Greenland’s ice sheet, which is melting rapidly.
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Drilling into the Past to Predict the Future
Climate change is at the center of a remarkable international drilling operation into Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf.
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Vintage Radar Film Tracks What’s Beneath Antarctic Ice
The newly digitized data double the timescale of ice-penetrating radar monitoring in some of the fastest changing areas of Antarctica.
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Scientists Rescue Historical Data Taken on Floating Ice Island
A never-before-published data set from the Cold War could help scientists unravel the mysterious western Arctic Ocean.
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Small Seismic Signals Tell a Story of Iceberg Calving
Seismic signals detected hundreds of kilometers away from Greenland glaciers reveal the calving style and iceberg size.