Antarctic Ice Loss

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 13, 2008 | 4 / 5 (34) | 1

Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online this week in ...

Global glacier melt continues

Space & Earth / Environment

Jan 29, 2009 | 2.5 / 5 (20) | 8

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...

Ice Bridge Supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 08, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (34) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ice bridge connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula to Charcot Island has disintegrated. The event continues a series of breakups that began in March 2008 on the ice ...

Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 12, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (32) | 25

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.

Greenland's rising air temperatures drive ice loss at surface and beyond

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 20, 2008 | 2.9 / 5 (11) | 1

A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fueling loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout ...

Greenland's glaciers losing ice faster this year than last year, which was record-setting itself

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 15, 2008 | 2.2 / 5 (10) | 19

Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago.

Arctic sea ice thinning at record rate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 28, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (14) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.

Lasers from space show thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 23, 2009 | 1.8 / 5 (4) | 0

The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers. The findings are an important step forward in the ...

Icebergs break away from Antarctic iceshelf

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 28, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (16) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf - indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three ...

Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 15, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (32) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.

NASA Ice Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 24, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (11) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) to compose the most comprehensive picture of changing glaciers along the coast of the Greenland and Antarctic ...

Ice-free Arctic Ocean possible in 30 years, not 90 as previously estimated

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 02, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (62) | 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated. New research says the Arctic might lose most of its ice cover in summer in as few ...

Antarctic ice loss speeds up, nearly matches Greenland loss

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 24, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (19) | 0

Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by UC Irvine ...

An accurate picture of ice loss in Greenland

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 30, 2008 | 3.6 / 5 (14) | 0

Researchers from TU Delft joined forces with the Center for Space Research (CSR) in Austin, Texas, USA, to develop a method for creating an accurate picture of Greenland's shrinking ice cap. On the strength ...

West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 19, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (10) | 4

New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest ...