A new polar ice study from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ... sought to solve a decades-old mystery of the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica ...

“West Antarctic ice ... research and from following other Antarctic scientists’ work for decades — that it will take hundreds or thousands of years for the effects of global warming to ...

Even significantly cutting planet-heating pollution now will have “limited power” to prevent warmer oceans from triggering the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, the report found.

The Brunt Ice Shelf is the location of BAS Halley Research Station. BAS glaciologists ... extensive surface melt-water at the time of its collapse, and no evidence that climate change has played ...

At the world’s northernmost year-round research station, scientists are racing to ... Scientists hoping to harvest ice cores are finding glaciers inundated by water. Research sites are getting ...

But the new research ... The impacts of an AMOC collapse would leave parts of the world unrecognizable. In the decades after a collapse, Arctic ice would start creeping south, and after 100 ...