Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings. This dramatic melting could cause serious issues for coastal ...

West Antarctica ... 2,500 billion tons of ice in the past 25 years and nearly half of that has happened since 2012. An international team of polar scientists found that melting in Antarctica ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting nearly six times as fast as it did 40 years ago: In the 1980s, Antarctica lost 40 billion tons of ice annually, but that number jumped to an average of 252 ...

destabilising and melting the ice sheets. Article continues below The phenomenon is causing rising sea levels, especially in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica. An international team of ...

A team of international scientists has created a map revealing ... volume of ice that is grounded on a rock bed sitting below sea-level. This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the ...

Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ... He added: “This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean ...

Ice sheets in Greenland, Antarctica melting faster than previously thought ... communities as climate change melts the polar ice caps and sea levels rise.

Major global cities, including London, New York and Shanghai would be under threat Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in ...