East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths ... that's below sea level.The warming ocean is melting the floating ice sheet itself from below, causing ...

Dozens of people were rescued from a floating ice sheet in a Minnesota lake on New Year’s Day, officials said. Deputies received a report that between 20 and 25 people had become stranded on the ...

The Conger Ice Shelf disintegrated in 2022. Satellite data leading up to the collapse hint at worrying changes in a supposedly stable ice sheet.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass due to warmer air and water temperatures. In many areas where Antarctic land ice meets the ocean, large floating ice shelves form, areas particularly vulnerable ...

New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions of North America melted – a discovery has implications for modern ice sheets and glaciers in the face ...

A big chunk of ice ... ice sheet. The stream funnels its ice either down N79 or the glacial member just to the south, Zachariae Isstrom. Zachariae has already lost most of its floating ice shelf ...