Antarctica ice melting increased by 280% in last 16 years, study saysThe researchers were able to discern that between 1979 and 1990, Antarctica shed an average of 40 gigatonnes of ice mass annually. From 200...
15 Jan, 2019, 12.58 PM IST
- NASA launching laser satellite to study Earth's changing ice
Washington, Aug 24 (IANS) NASA is launching a laser-armed satellite next month that will measure -- in unprecedented detail -- changes in t...
24 Aug, 2018, 10.27 AM IST
- Heat source under Antarctica melting its ice sheet: NASA
Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) A geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below West Antarctica, explaining some of the melting tha...
08 Nov, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
Movement of Greenland ice during past 9,000 years mappedThe snowfall rates were higher in the past 9,000 years with the slow stiffening of the ice sheet and the collapse of an "ice bridge" that u...
05 Feb, 2016, 01.24 PM IST
NASA's incredible expedition to explore the Arctic ice sheetsThe sea ice around the North Pole is critical to regulating global temperature, ocean currents, and atmospheric circulation, and it's melti...
22 Jul, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
NASA maps layers deep inside Greenland ice sheetScientists using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA have created the first-ever comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Green...
25 Jan, 2015, 02.31 PM IST
Collapse of West Antarctic ice sheet has begun: StudyUniversity of Washington researchers have used detailed topography maps and computer modelling to confirm that the sheet has started to thi...
15 May, 2014, 02.56 PM IST