The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise ...
indicating that the West Antarctic ice sheet may not be as vulnerable as we thought to complete collapse caused by climate change – a worst-case situation that could raise sea levels by metres.
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 ...
Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea ...
We just dropped below freezing a couple of hours ago and we’re starting to see a very thin sheet of ice forming over any water that might happen to be outside. I went around the spots in ...
Noseworthy says people should always check the ice once every 15 to 20 feet, and advises against just eyeballing it. He says people might have been able to do that 20 years ago, but the climate has ...
ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich — Seeing people jump through a hole in the ice usually means trouble here on Cranberry Lake, but that’s why the Alpine Township Fire Department is out here on the ...
But when the plant shuts down, as anglers told us it did last weekend, a layer of ice forms, but it's very thin. WCCO spoke with three fishermen who all said Xcel has posted warning signs around ...