New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse of the ice sheet in the Ross Sea region can be prevented—if we keep to a low ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

The Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea are separated by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, one of the biggest in the world, covering some 530,000 cubic miles. That means that creatures on one side of the ice ...

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

This accelerated melting could contribute to global sea level rise, threatening coastal communities worldwide. Current estimates indicate a near-total collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by ...

Writing in Science, the researchers said that the demise of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) would result in a sea level rise of 3.3m. Previous estimates had forecast a rise in the region of ...

They do worry, however, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might shrink enough to raise global sea levels appreciably in the coming centuries. The worst-case scenario is a complete collapse of the ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough ice to raise sea levels by 13 to 16.4 feet ... is drilling for geological records under the Ross Ice Shelf to predict future melting.

Scientists, including from British Antarctic Survey, have used octopus DNA to discover that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS ... but global sea level was 5 – 10 meters higher than today.” ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...