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One-third of the Antarctic ice shelf could collapse if the world continues to heat up at its current rate
As climate change is making temperatures soar, more than a third of the Antarctic's ice shelf could…
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Wind is thawing Greenland, but also helping Antarctica retain its ice sheets somehow
Even if you leave the various glacier-laced mountains out of the equation, the ice sheets in Greenl…
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Sea-ice levels in Antarctica at a 'mind-blowing' historic low
Sea ice levels in Antarctica are at an all-time low, causing scientists to worry about the effects …
Marta Biino
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Map shows the ice sheets and glaciers melting that scientists most fear will be the source of catastrophic rising sea levels
Sea levels are rising steadily each year due to global warming, but these glaciers and ice sheets m…
Marianne Guenot,Annie Fu
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In a lost lake 3,500 feet under the Antarctic Ice, scientists just found the carcasses of tiny creatures
The SALSA team used a corer - which is essentially a tube that gets screwed into the ice - from the…
Aylin Woodward
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An iceberg the size of Los Angeles just broke off Antarctica - and it could happen again within weeks
Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf is replete with cracks. One crack has been growing for months, and a 4…
Aylin Woodward
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A giant crack in Antarctic ice is 'days or weeks' from breaking off a Delaware-sized iceberg
"Rifting of this magnitude doesn't happen so often, so we don't often get a chance to study it up c…
Dave Mosher
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A huge crack in a 1,000-foot-thick Antarctic ice block has taken an alarming turn
In November 2016, a team of scientists in NASA's Operation IceBridge survey flew over the rift and …
Dave Mosher
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Scientists accidentally found life under 3,000 feet of ice in Antarctica. 'Never in a million years' would they have expected it, the lead scientist said.
Animal life was found in the icy waters beneath the Filchner-Ronne ice sheet, which experts had tho…
Marianne Guenot
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Incredible images of the biggest iceberg to break off the Antarctic shelf since the 1960s
A growing rift near the edge of the glacier was visible to satellites for several weeks before the …
NASA Earth Observatory
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There's a cavity underneath Antarctica that's two thirds the size of Manhattan - a sign ice sheets are melting faster than we thought
Antarctica is ringed by a skirt of ice sheets and floating ice shelves that provide a buffer betwee…
Aylin Woodward
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A 1,000-foot-thick ice block the size of Delaware is snapping off of Antarctica
When the block does break off, it will be the third-largest in recorded history. MacGregor said it'…
Dave Mosher
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A 1,000-foot-thick ice block the size of Delaware is about to snap off of Antarctica
Right now researchers have limited satellite coverage of the area; NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Eleva…
Dave Mosher
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One of Antarctica's biggest glaciers will soon reach a point of irreversible melting. That would cause sea levels to rise at least 1.6 feet.
Every year, the portion of the Thwaites Glacier's floating ice shelf that extends into the sea gets…
Aylin Woodward
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One of the scariest effects of climate change might already be happening - and it'd mean our projections are way off
Normally, holes in Antarctic ice rapidly cool waters around the Antarctic continental shelf, which …
Kevin Loria
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Why some scientists won't link Antarctica's giant iceberg to global warming
"Although this is a natural event, and we're not aware of any link to human-induced climate change,…
Dave Mosher
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A surprisingly subtle force may have broken off one of the largest icebergs ever recorded
"To me, it's an unequivocal signature of the impact of climate change on Larsen C," Eric Rignot, a …
Dave Mosher
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Antarctica is shedding a colossal iceberg that could fill Lake Michigan
"Large calving events such as this are normal processes of a healthy ice sheet, ones that have occu…
Dave Mosher
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A 1 trillion-ton iceberg has broken off Antarctica, and scientists say it's one of the largest ever recorded
"Large calving events such as this are normal processes of a healthy ice sheet, ones that have occu…
Dave Mosher
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There's a 70-mile-long crack in Antarctica and it's growing bigger every day
When the block does break off, it will be the third-largest in recorded history. MacGregor said it'…