But the influx of freshwater from the melting Greenland Ice Sheet is degrading the AMOC. A 2021 study found that the current is now at its weakest in more than a thousand years.

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When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...

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Co-author Torsten Albrecht, a senior ice dynamics researcher at PIK, said there is mounting proxy climate evidence, from marine fossils and other sources, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet did ...

Surface elevation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from the Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica68. The black line marks the present-day grounding line74; pale areas are floating ice shelves.

So, “we wanted to see what the impact of 1.5 degrees of warming would be on those ice sheets,” Stokes said. They found that it’s still too warm for polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

The glacier finch is the only bird in the world that nests at such high altitudes. Sadly, climate change is threatening to ...