Showing posts with label ice shelf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice shelf. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Greenland ice sheet set to trigger nearly a foot in sea level rise - The Washington Post

The findings in the journal Nature Climate Change project that it is now inevitable that 3.3 percent of the Greenland ice sheet will melt — equal to 110 trillion tons of ice, the researchers said. That will trigger nearly a foot of global sea-level rise...


Thursday, March 31, 2022

An ice shelf the size of NYC has collapsed in Antarctica | Popular Science

…East Antarctica holds around five times as much ice as the especially vulnerable western region, and if all of the ice across East Antarctica melts, global sea level could rise by over 160 feet, University of Minnesota ice scientist Peter Neff told the Associated Press…









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