North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

But climate change is disrupting this circular process. The build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has raised ...
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Earth Has Crossed 7 of 9 Limits Keeping It Safe for Humans. “Humanity Is Pushing Beyond the Limits of a Safe Operating Space,” Scientists Say

For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...
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Has the Anthropocene been canceled?

One of the world’s largest scientific organizations has voted against formal recognition of the Anthropocene. The debates ...
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A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland's ice sheet

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.

Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Greenland is shrinking slightly and drifting slowly toward the northwest, GNSS stations reveal

Greenland is being twisted, compressed, and stretched. This happens due to plate tectonics and movements in the bedrock, ...
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Antarctica’s Ice Loss Now Mirrors Greenland’s Alarming Pace

What happens when the world’s most frozen places start thawing at the same time? For decades, Antarctica seemed like the ...
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North American ice sheets drove dramatic sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age than scientists had thought, according to a Tulane University-led study ...