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 ...

Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

This is the ice that affects sea level, because it sits above the ocean’s surface. Scientists have calculated that if just the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to collapse and melt, it would cause ...

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica ... of the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to global sea level rise. However, incorporating our ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level ... both East and West Antarctica ...