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The secrets hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet

The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing ice at an increasing rate. It remains unclear whether this mass loss will further accelerate over the coming decades. The continent of Antarctica is vast, bigger than the US and Mexico combined, and because it is so cold... click to read more

Mathieu Morlighem | Associate Professor at Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA

climate change

Antarctica

ice sheet

sea level

sea level rise

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 17, 2020

Ice sheet melting: it’s not just about sea level rise

You've probably heard that climate change is melting the polar ice caps - but what does this actually mean? It refers to the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets, which are large systems of interconnected glaciers, kilometres thick. They are formed by snow falling on land,... click to read more

Kaitlin Naughten | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK

climate change

oceans

Antarctica

ocean warming

ocean currents

ice sheet

Reading time 4 min

published on Sep 13, 2019