The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events – such as atmospheric rivers – by 2100, with implications for ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciencesreveals powerful and previously unknown winds racing over parts of ...

New research reveals powerful Antarctic winds that could be accelerating glacier melt and rising seas. In the far reaches of West Antarctica, along the rugged coastline of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, ...

Study reveals low-level wind jets reaching 32 m/s in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea region accelerate Thwaites and Pine Island glacier melting.

Benn DI, Luckman A, Åström JA, Crawford AJ, Cornford SL, Bevan SL, Zwinger T, Gladstone R, Alley K, Pettit E & Bassis J (2022) Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites ...

If Thwaites' ice shelf were to collapse, it would expose a very tall ice cliff facing the ocean along its 75-mile (120-kilometer) front. There is only so much force that ice can sustain ...

The calving front of Thwaites' ice shelf. The blue area is light reflecting off ice below the water. James Yungel/NASA Icebridge ...

If Thwaites’ ice shelf were to collapse, it would expose a very tall ice cliff facing the ocean along its 75-mile (120-kilometer) front. There is only so much force that ice can sustain ...

University of California, Davis professor Eric Rignot just published more data he asserts support the notion that the Thwaites ice shelf is in imminent danger of self-destruction. He further ...