New Map Reveals a Hidden Landscape Beneath Antarctica's Ice
Greenland stands at the crossroads of environmental change, where ice meets water, and land rises anew. Its future will depend on both natural processes and human actions.
covering millions of square kilometres of land and ocean. At the end of spring, when the sun shines 24 hours a day, life flourishes at the floe edge. Here, where ice meets open waters, living ...
Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...
which is where the ground-based ice meets the sea. Over time, such land-based ice moves into the surrounding ocean and eventually melts – a process that takes place around the coast of ...
Three-dimensional maps of glacier surfaces across Greenland reveal that cracks are growing rapidly where land ice meets the sea — and climate change is to blame. Using satellite images gathered ...
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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