Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago
Hear the latest updates with new discoveries from prominent Greenland and Antarctic scientists. The planet continues to dance on the precipice of disaster. New studies show the ice sheets covering Greenland and the Antarctic, vital to the stability of Earth’s climate, are melting at three times the rate they were just 30 years ago. Recently released data illustrate how human contributions to climate change are nearing tipping points for irreparable damage to these formations that hold 99% of the globe’s freshwater ice, enough to cover the entire U.S. in nearly one meter of water if they were to melt.
Drs. Poinar and Scambos will discuss the innovative methods used to track the state of the world’s ice sheets and the challenges faced to preserve them, as well as update the status and forecasts for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets coming from the latest round of their research and the work of fellow scientists in some of the Earth’s harshest environments.
Hear the latest updates with new discoveries from prominent Greenland and Antarctic scientists. The planet continues to dance on the precipice of disaster. New studies show the ice sheets covering Greenland and the Antarctic, vital to the stability of Earth’s climate, are melting at three times the rate they were just 30 years ago. Recently released data illustrate how human contributions to climate change are nearing tipping points for irreparable damage to these formations that hold 99% of the globe’s freshwater ice, enough to cover the entire U.S. in nearly one meter of water if they were to melt.
Drs. Poinar and Scambos will discuss the innovative methods used to track the state of the world’s ice sheets and the challenges faced to preserve them, as well as update the status and forecasts for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets coming from the latest round of their research and the work of fellow scientists in some of the Earth’s harshest environments.
