'Irreversible on any human timescale': Scientist reveals best and worst-case scenario for Antarctica

Despite being far away from civilisation, a melting Antarctic’s "disastrous" consequences will ripple across the world, ...

Worst-Case Climate Scenario Would Irreversibly Damage Antarctica, Scientists Warn

A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to ...

How do clouds form in Antarctica? The first flight-based aerosol measurements in 20 years

Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...
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Scientists drill massive Antarctic core to expose how fast the planet is heating

An international research team has extracted the oldest continuous ice core ever recovered from Antarctica, a cylinder of ...

Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...
Nature

Deepest-ever rock core extracted from under Antarctic ice sheet

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.
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West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Meet the scientist who stumbled into the cold—and stayed

John Cassano, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at CU Boulder, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and fellow at CIRES, recently returned from his 15th research trip to ...