Humans are in the process of changing the planet in a way that hasn’t happened in 2.6 million years.. For eons, the Laurentide Ice Sheet has been a fixture of North America. At its peak, it ...

Scientists from the Oregon State University conducted chemical analyses on air bubbles trapped within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core. They discovered that, in the la ...

The lingering Laurentide Ice Sheet may have masked the true extent of Antarctic ice loss—offering a warning for future change. 100% = global mean sea level rise; areas above saw higher-than ...

An Ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers ... (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada and North America, ...

The Laurentide Ice Sheet entered a state of “irreversible decline,” shrinking until eventually, it was a shadow of its former self, a single island-bound glacier high in the Canadian Arctic.

The Laurentide Ice Sheet hasn’t quite melted all the way. The Barnes Ice Cap, in the middle of Baffin Island in northern Canada, is all that remains of a sheet that once covered hundreds of ...

Reconstruction of the activity of ice streams operating during the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet reveals that the number of ice streams and their total discharge decreased as the total ...

The massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the ...

The new study—published today in the journal Nature and co-authored by researchers at the University of Bristol, University of Washington and UC Berkeley—suggests that substantial reduction of the ...

Magic + Heresy (aka Jesse Alexander), a first year at Hampshire, was the first opener for the Tiger Saw show last night at the Red Barn. The performance began modestly, but after a minute or two ...