The South Pole’s ice sheets – which contain up to 90% of the world’s total freshwater – are melting three times as fast as a decade ago. Antarctica shed three trillion tons of ice between ...

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice ... the theory is that buried ice will melt and seep up from underground. Some of it would vaporize and create clouds in the ...

“One such example is that eruptions proximate to surface ice will promote ice melting. In turn, the crustal unloading associated with melting an ice sheet affects the internal dynamics of the ...

How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...

They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal melting”. Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat of the ice sheet in some ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting ...

Melting ice may cause dozens of volcanoes beneath ... Antarctica, a virtually uninhabited landmass that surround's Earth's south pole, is home to more than 100 volcanoes. Some of these rise ...

cause ice shelves to melt in warmer waters, and impede the Southern Ocean from absorbing carbon dioxide. But this new research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, explores another ...

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified with news that for the first time the North Pole stands at the ... for shipping. In the South, the effect is equally ...

The South Pole’s ice sheets – which contain up to 90% of the world’s total freshwater – are melting three times as fast as a decade ago. Antarctica shed three trillion tons of ice between ...