Ice Melting

Scientists explain melting of Antarctic ice sheet dating back 9,000 years

Scientists have found evidence that between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago, in a period termed mid-Holocene, the East Antarctic ice sheet in Queen Maud Land melted rapidly during the time when the world experienced warmer-than-present summers. They said that this ice sheet sector in East Antarctica was thinner following the end of the last ice age, when massive ice sheets previously covered North America, northern Europe and southern South America. When these ice sheets melted, they raised the sea level by more than 100 metres. For context, if absolutely all of Antarctica's present day ice melted, the seas would rise by 58 metres on average. Sixty per cent of the world's fresh water is bound up in Antarctic ice sheets. "The ice sheet in East Antarctica stores enormous amounts of water. This means that this is the biggest possible source of future sea level rise - up to 53 metres if all of the East Antarctic ice melts - and is seen as the largest source of uncertainties in the future sea

Melting of Antartica's Thwaites Glacier observed by underwater robot: Study

Widespread cracks and crevasses were revealed in observations beneath the floating shelf of the vulnerable Thwaites Glacier of the Antarctic, where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to its retreat and potentially to sea-level rise, according to a new study. The first-of-their-kind observations of the Florida-sized glacier was obtained by deploying the remotely operated Icefin underwater robot through a nearly 2,000-foot-deep borehole drilled in the ice, the study said. The research team from Cornell University, US, and international collaborators, captured the first close-up views of the critical point near the grounding line where Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica - one of the continent's fastest changing and most unstable glaciers - meets the Amundsen Sea, the study said. From that area, the researchers concluded that Thwaites has retreated smoothly and steadily up the ocean floor since at least 2011. They found that flat sections covering much of the ice shelf's bas

Highest glacier on Mount Everest melting at alarming rate: Study

With estimated thinning rates of nearly two metre per year, glaciers on the Mount Everest such as South Col Glacier, has been thinning at an alarming rate

Study suggests melting glaciers will produce new salmon habitat

Spawning streams are overheating and droughts are drying up salmon habitats entirely, impacting many food webs from the Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges to the Pacific Ocean.

Ice loss accelerating at record pace globally, shows research

Global warming due to carbon emissions is a key factor

First drone goes flying to the North Pole on a climate mission: Report

Sensors on the drone would assess sunlight reflected from the ice

Global leaders at UN meet: If virus does not kill us, climate change will

The pandemic has muted the U.N. meeting, with world leaders speaking not from the podium in New York but via video from home

Humpback Whales migrating north as climate change triggers ocean warming

The study will involve multiple cruises to the whales' feeding grounds in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica and the coastlines of the three continents where they breed

Climate change did not stop for Covid: Brace for warmest 5 years on record

1.7 billion people to face severe water shortage due to the decline in glacier runoffs in Central Europe and Tibetan Plateau between 2030 and 2050

50% jump in lakes from melting ice: Threat of Kedarnath like tragedy rises

There are 2028 glacial lakes and water bodies in the Himalayan region catchment which contribute to rivers flowing across India

Arctic heatwave: Wildfire triggers polar ice melt, emits 56 megatonnes CO2

The polar region is warming at two to three times the global average, impacting nature and humanity at a global scale

Greenland lost record 532 bn tons of ice in 2019: A million ton per minute

The previous record was set in 2012 when the island lost 464 billion tons of mass from its thick ice sheet

Heatwaves, flooding: Severe climate change in India in 80 years, says study

The enhanced warming is likely to further accelerate the snow and glacier melt over this region, with a consequent increase in flooding

Govt may set up National Coastal Mission to address climate change impact

The mission will be set up under National Action Plan for Climate Change and will include measures on climate change-related adaptation and mitigation while simultaneously advancing development

Amazon forest fires melting glaciers over 2,000 km away in Andes: Study

The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, found that aerosols from biomass burning, such as black carbon, can be transported by wind to tropical Andean glaciers

Rising sea level puts Mumbai at risk of being submerged by 2050: Study

According to the researchers, nearly 250 million people around the world currently live on land that may go below water levels during annual floods

Atlantic Ocean's heat is warming Artic twice as fast as rest of the world

Signs of planet's changing climate, this explains severe weather change in mid-latitude countries