it is more vulnerable to melt than Greenland's land-based ice — precariously so in West Antarctica. In 1978, glaciologist John Mercer warned that rising carbon dioxide levels could trigger the ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are all altering Earth’s spin. The ...

Desert reservoirs capture and store organic carbon, according to new research Dams have long been a controversial topic ... Drone experiment reveals how Greenland ice sheet is changing (CU Boulder ...

The agreement has weathered an ice age of inertia — but can it survive the skunk at the picnic with an appetite for American pie?

East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...

I am a geoscientist who studies the environmental history of Greenland and its ice sheet, including natural hazards and climate change. That knowledge is essential for understanding the risks that ...

Greenland is a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate change. The ice sheet is dwindling in real time. Sapphire lakes of meltwater, sometimes miles wide, collect on glaciers in summer.

"Our modeling suggests that the transitioning in Greenland's waters will be similar to the increase in ice-free regions in the Barents Sea. It shows that it is the indirect effect of climate ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has shown signs of record-breaking ... one of the largest contributors to rising oceans, alongside Greenland’s ice loss and thermal expansion of warming seas.

an expert on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. Scientists, however, have seen a shift in the last couple of decades. Because of warming oceans ...