Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea ...
The left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet as of January 1, 2025. The middle map is a close up of the Antarctic Peninsula through the same time frame. The graph shows the daily ...
It also means that if one mission were to fail, the other could be relied upon to maintain our record of polar ice change. Between 2010 and 2023, the Greenland Ice Sheet thinned by 1.2 metres on ...
It reveals that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted more rapidly than previously ... Countdown to an Ice-Free Arctic: New Research Warns of Accelerated Timelines Dec. 3, 2024 — Scientists ...