The melting of Antarctica’s northernmost region ... concern to scientists is the effect of this warmer water on the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, located at 75° South, below the ...

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

Detailed radar maps of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica will improve forecasts of ice melt from this key contributor to sea levels. Researchers Survey Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica ...

West Antarctica ... Thwaites’s neighboring Pine Island Glacier, the study also provides new, potentially alarming, insight into the cause of the glacier’s melting. Scientists tried to ...

In a bold move to combat the accelerating melting of Antarctic glaciers ... strategically positioned to protect the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, which act as critical barriers preventing ...

The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest in West Antarctica, a region that is currently Antarctica’s biggest ice loser. Pine Island, which loses an extraordinary 45 billion tons of ice to ...

Climate change has been confirmed once more to be taking its toll on Earth's shape as an ice island has been discovered in Antarctica which ... balances the amount of melting that occurs underwater.

Melting ice may cause dozens of volcanoes beneath Antarctica's colossal ice sheet to erupt and trigger a troubling feedback loop of environmental damage, scientists have warned. A new study by ...

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and stronger If you picture Antarctica ... Researchers from Brown University, Rhode Island, ran 4,000 computer simulations to examine ...

The thinning shelf has lost ice along its front and northern margin, and fractured ice is visible along the southern edge. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...