A delicate Antarctic balance with global climate implications

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...
The Conversation

What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers

Steve Rintoul receives funding from the Australian Government as part of the Antarctic Science Collaboration Initiative, through the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership. Esmee van Wijk receives ...
AOL

Ocean storms under Antarctic ice found to rapidly boost melting

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...
Gizmodo

Scientists Just Found Another Way Antarctica Is Falling Apart

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...
The Conversation

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...
SFGate

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...
Times Union

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode ...