The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may have survived an even warmer period than it is experiencing now ...

British Antarctic Survey researchers have found that the rate at which ice is melting and contributing to sea level rise will accelerate in the next century, regardless of actions to limit ...

Large parts of West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse 'in our lifetimes' Why a 20-mile-long glacial rift is such a troubling sign.

A top climate scientist says we may have crossed a dangerous tipping point in Antarctica—and the long-term fallout could be worse than we’re ready to face.

However, researchers found even with no additional global warming, an irreversible collapse of some regions of the West Antarctic ice sheet is possible.

The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet—which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise—is not "inevitable", scientists said Monday following research that tracked the region's ...

The rate at which the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting will accelerate over the coming decades and is now an "unavoidable" consequence of climate change, a new study finds. Even if countries manage ...

The ice shelves that hold back the West Antarctic ice sheet will be melted by warming seawater, even in the unlikely event that the world achieves its 1.5°C climate goal, a computer model of the ...

The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of nine global climate 'tipping points' scientists identified in 2009. The passing of these environmental red lines would be catastrophic for ...

New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse of the ice sheet in the Ross Sea region can be prevented—if we keep to a low ...

Naughten’s study concentrated on the part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that is most at risk from melting from below, near the Amundsen Sea. It includes the massive Thwaites ice shelf that … ...

Home > Science West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Is Likely Inevitable, Study Finds Even if we introduce countermeasures, West Antarctica's ice shelves will probably fall apart in the coming decades.