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Scientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat

A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures similar to today.

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers and tourists explore the edge of an ice shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula, which has warmed faster than nearly any other region in the past few decades. Credit Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the Shoesmith Glacier on Horseshoe Island on Feb. 21. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica

By Bob Berwyn

Ice researchers say that some of the geoengineering concepts aimed at trying to slow polar ice melt are unaffordable and unrealistic. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming, New Study Says

By Bob Berwyn

A slurry mix of sand and seawater is pumped onto the main public beach during a sand replenishment project for eroding shoreline related to sea level rise on Nov. 21, 2024 in San Clemente, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of the Kalabogi village in Khulna, Bangladesh during the high tide on March 10, 2023. The village has been facing frequent cyclones and floods since the late 1990s. Credit: Kazi Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

New Study Reinforces Worries About Pulses of Rapid Sea Level Rise

By Bob Berwyn

Crevasses upstream of the terminus of the Jakobshavn Isbræ (Sermeq Kujalleq) Glacier in west-central Greenland, a region where a new study shows a significant spread of crevasses. Photo courtesy William Colgan, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

New 3-D Study of the Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Glaciers Falling Apart Faster Than Expected

By Bob Berwyn

The Thwaites Glacier and much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be lost by the 23rd century. Credit: Rob Larter/BAS

‘Grim Outlook’ for Thwaites Glacier

By Bob Berwyn

New research examines potential changes below thousands of feet of ice in East Antarctica that would affect millions of people in coastal cities worldwide by raising sea levels even more than expected in the next few centuries. Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Where Thick Ice Sheets in Antarctica Meet the Ground, Small Changes Could Have Big Consequences

By Bob Berwyn

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