These mountains currently restrict the East Antarctic ice sheet as it flows from East Antarctica to low elevations in the Ross Sea.” Yet there are significant questions about the past uplift history ...

Containing around 750,000 cubic miles of ice – enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly 3 billion times – the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a rich reservoir of precious frozen freshwater.

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02366-2 Cite This Page : ...

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

More information: David M. Chandler et al, Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss, Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02366-2 ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting — and the consequences could be catastrophic. Scientists warn that just a slight increase in ocean temperature could trigger an irreversible collapse of ...

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.

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four metres of global sea level rise to play out over ...

New research into some of Earth’s largest ice sheets has revealed a startling new Antarctic tipping point, and researchers say that it has the potential to be disastrous.

An ancient landscape, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been found beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica. The area, ...