Ice Sheet

Antarctica now has more than 65,000 'meltwater lakes' as summer ice melts

Scientists are particularly interested in these lakes because they may contribute to destabilising the ice shelves and ice sheet in future.

Antarctica's ice sheets are melting twice as faster, with over 92 billion tonnes per year

Using gravitational satellite data, researchers have found that during the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice its mass in its western portion compared to what it accumulated in the east.

ISRO data shows 'extraordinary' melt of Greenland ice sheet

A massive ice sheet in Greenland has melted this month over an unusually large area, which was detected after analysing radar data from the Indian Space Research Organization's ( ISRO) Oceansat-2 satellite.