Antarctic ice

A 2,000-foot-long ice core suggests potential for sudden and rapid Antarctic melting

Daisy Hips

Evidence from a 2,000-foot-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank suddenly and dramatically around 8,000 years ...

Meltwater is infiltrating Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its structure

Daisy Hips

I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though the canyon is only about the ...

Octopus DNA reveals collapse of Antarctic ice sheet is “close”

Daisy Hips

Scientists investigating how Antarctica’s ice sheets retreated in the deep past have turned to an innovative approach: studying the genes ...

Scientists discover ancient landscape “frozen in time” under Antarctic ice

Daisy Hips

Scientists discover ancient landscape “frozen in time” under Antarctic ice Scientists revealed Tuesday that they had discovered a vast, hidden ...