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The Latest Breaking News from West Antarctic

Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios

London is under water. The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bank of England are all submerged. Far away, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have collapsed, triggering accelerated sea level rise which, combined with a storm surge in the North Sea and a high…

The Conversation

Scientists drilled through 523 meters of Antarctic ice and recovered a record-breaking core preserving up to 23 million years of Earth's climate history

Scientists recovered a sediment core from beneath West Antarctica's ice. This core preserves millions of years of ice sheet history and past environmental changes. Researchers will analyze marine microfossils and sediment layers for clues about past temperatures. The findings will help predict Antarctica's reaction to future climate change. This research…

The Times of India

'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.

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Scientists uncover a 100-kilometre ‘hidden world’ beneath Antarctica that could change climate predictions

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey made a breakthrough in understanding a decades-old geographical mystery by identifying a large granite body buried beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). The team came upon the mystery after noticing some exotic (pink) boulders located on top of black volcanics within the Hudson…

The Times of India

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ice sheet is shaped like a hitchhiker’s thumb – an apt metaphor, because the West Antarctic ice…

The Conversation

Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic ice

The unusual patterns, found beneath West Antarctica's Doston Ice Shelf, could help scientists to better understand how glaciers erode.

LiveScience

El Niño kickstarted the melting of Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' 80 years ago, new study reveals

Rapid melting of the Thwaites Glacier in west Antarctica began in the 1940s following an unusually hot El Niño fluctuation, ice cores have revealed.

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We can still prevent the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet – if we act fast to keep future warming in check

Projecting when and how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will lose mass due to current and future global ocean warming – and the likely impact on sea level rise and coastal communities – is a priority for climate science.

The Conversation

Antarctica is melting and we all need to adapt, a trio of climate analyses show

West Antarctica is headed for decades of rapid melting no matter how quickly humans cut greenhouse gas emissions, and 2023 shattered records for missing sea ice around the continent.

WEKU

Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research

The rate at which the warming Southern Ocean melts the West Antarctic ice sheet will speed up rapidly over the course of this century, regardless of how much emissions fall in coming decades, our new research suggests. This ocean-driven melting is expected to increase sea-level rise, with consequences for coastal…

The Conversation

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. And this is bad news for humanity

Ottawa’s famous Rideau Canal, which turns into the world’s largest ice rink every winter, is too thin to open this winter.

The Conversation

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