Category Archives: Water_MI_KEY

Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) is losing mass at a high rate1. Given the short-term nature of the observational record, it is difficult to assess...

Widespread Biological Response to Rapid Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

First Peninsula-wide assessment of biological sensitivity to recent warming.

The Ice at the End of the World (2019)

A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change.

Operation IceBridge mission

NASA’s Operation IceBridge images Earth's polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the polar regions with the global climate system.