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 ...

An extensive model of the Antarctic ... sheet, which dictates where and how quickly glaciers move toward the ocean. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 rise. The findings are published in the ...

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 ...

Scientists used computer models to predict how water flows under the entire Antarctic ice sheet, which dictates where and how quickly glaciers move toward the ocean. The findings, published Dec ...