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Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic did not melt during the last interglacial event, suggesting it could ...

Human-caused climate change has made the future of the West Antarctic ice sheet uncertain ... of the last interglacial period, changes in Earth’s orbit raised Antarctic temperatures even ...

NISAR, an upcoming Earth satellite mission by NASA and ISRO, promises to revolutionize how we monitor Earth's surface. Using ...

Smaller calving events, not large icebergs, drive Antarctic ice sheet loss. Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate ...

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects ... parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the bordering Ronne Ice Shelf suggests that ...

Throughout much of Earth's history, the climate has switched between periods of extreme heat and freezing cold. Cold, glacial periods are characterized by large ice sheets in the Northern ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — U of T Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate ...