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NASA’s ICESat-2 Fires 2 Trillion Laser Pulses to Track Earth’s Changing Ice
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone—2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch ...
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New Map Reveals a Hidden Landscape Beneath Antarctica’s Ice—And It’s More at Risk Than Ever
A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...
Stanford Scientists Just Found a Missing Piece in Antarctica’s Ice Puzzle
Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...
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The shrinking of the Greenland Ice Sheet can’t be stopped—but it can and must be slowed
Ice loss in Greenland is already large, irreversible, and greatly accelerated after centuries of near stability. Though a ...
A Monumental Storm Dropped 16 Billion Tons of Snow on Greenland, Slowing Melt of Ice Sheet
Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing ...
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Mega-storm dumps 11 billion tonnes of snow ― and builds up a melting ice sheet
A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.
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This Is What Antarctica Would Look Like Without Its Ice
There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...
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Antarctica’s hidden ice dynamics will redefine sea level projections
As the planet heats up and Antarctica’s ice sheet melts at a faster pace, scientists warn of a steady rise in sea levels.
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The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
What's under all that ice in Antarctica? New map has answers.
A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.
Melting Antarctic ice sheets are slowing Earth’s strongest ocean current: ‘There could be severe consequences’
Freshwater from melting ice sheets can slow the critical ocean circulation that helps regulate the planet’s climate ...