the continent would gain a new inland sea—but it would lose much of the narrow coastal strip where four out of five Australians now live. East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so ...

This is one of the refined statistics to come out of the new compilation of data. It is a simple calculation: if you know the elevation of the top of the ice sheet ... "Around the coast it can ...

The storm system worked its way through the northern Rockies and central Plains during the first half of the weekend, hours ...

with animal and algal-based ecosystems beginning to appear once the ice sheets retreated. New research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has focused on the marine impacts by ...

Despite their ancient age, the landforms have striking resemblance to similar features produced by ice sheets much more recently. The buried landforms provide new knowledge about the mechanisms by ...

Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet over Greenland ... Circle on the west coast of Greenland, as they ...