About Ice Sheet
An ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km².
Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable'
... These floating tongues of ice extend from the main Ice Sheet into the ocean, and play a key role in holding back the glaciers behind...
Climate change: Greenland's culture shifts as Arctic heats up
... It s one of the few outlets where Greenland s Ice Sheet meets the sea...
Frozen Planet II returns with live footage of avalanche
... Greenland and Antarctica are currently, and Greenland s Ice Sheet has been shrinking continuously for the last 25 years due to climate change, There is humour and heartbreak - and efforts to build a connection with the " characters" - as the series producer Elizabeth White likes to refer to the animals...
Antarctica: Southern Ocean floor mapped in greatest ever detail
... " We can also study how the Antarctic Ice Sheet has changed over thousands of years just by looking at the seafloor, " explained Dr Rob Larter from the British Antarctic Survey...
Climate change: UN report to show true scale of impacts
... " The study will also outline key " tipping points" likely to be passed as the world warms - some of which are irreversible like the disintegration of the Greenland Ice Sheet...
IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts
... The study will also outline key " tipping points" that are likely to be passed as the world warms - some of which are irreversible like the disintegration of the Greenland Ice Sheet...
'I've seen irreversible change but hope too for planet'
... And on my first trip to the Greenland Ice Sheet, in 2004, researchers were talking of the melting ice as more of a problem for the future...
Archaeological digs in new locations at Culloden Battlefield
... The stone was torn from the ground as a huge Ice Sheet crept out of the west towards the Moray Firth coast...
