Scientists previously hypothesized that a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could mitigate the warming of the Amundsen Sea, which contributes to melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

"It appears that we may have lost control of the West Antarctic ice shelf melting over the 21st century," Naughten said. In this undated NASA photo ... the ice sheet will likely take centuries ...

This causes it to liquefy even more, threatening its ability to stop the ice sheet from ... in an undated photo. A new climate model predicts a faster rate of Antarctic ice melting.

The world’s strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it ... a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet near Nuuk, Greenland in this July 26, 2011 ...

A new study by the British Antarctic Survey concludes warmer seawater may work in a similar way on the undersides of ground-based ice sheets, melting them faster than previously thought.

A new massive study finds that Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) ...

Research, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, suggests that mass unloading due to melting of Antarctic ice ...

Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over ...

Mineral deposits formed in the past from such fluids show how the ice sheet responded to cyclic changes in climate. (Photo by ... beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Heat from Earth’s interior ...

More than a hundred volcanoes lie beneath the Antarctic ... will cause the ice sheet to warm from below as well as up top and where it meets the ocean, causing still more melting.

open image in gallery Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, according to researchers. An influx of freshwater from the ice sheets could have major implications for the ...