An Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas and Colorado combined is melting and could disappear in 7,000 years, possibly raising worldwide sea levels by 16 feet. Based on geologic measurements that date ...

WASHINGTON – An Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas and Colorado combined is melting and could disappear in 7,000 years, possibly raising worldwide sea levels by 16 feet. Based on geologic ...

Losing mittens and other personal possessions isn’t a modern-day woe: it appears that our Stone Age ancestors misplaced their personal belongings just as often as we do. An archaeological team working ...

Stone age artifacts including weapons, shoes, walking sticks and mittens -- abandoned in the mountains of Norway many thousands of years ago -- are being revealed as mountain glaciers melt and retreat ...

A large ice sheet in Antarctica has been melting slowly but steadily, and could disappear in 7,000 years. At that rate, it could raise sea levels around the world by almost five metres, according to a ...

WASHINGTON - An Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas and Colorado combined is melting and could disappear in 7,000 years, possibly raising worldwide sea levels by 16 feet. Based on geologic ...

WASHINGTON - An Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas and Colorado combined is melting and could disappear in 7,000 years, possibly raising worldwide sea levels by 16 feet. Based on geologic ...

date when rocks first become free of ice, researchers have found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet started retreating about 10,000 years ago, said John O. Stone, first author of a study appearing ...

WASHINGTON - An Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas and Colorado combined is melting and could disappear in 7,000 years, possibly raising worldwide sea levels by 16 feet. Based on geologic ...

An Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas and Colorado combined is melting and could disappear in 7,000 years, possibly raising worldwide sea levels by 16 feet. Based on geologic measurements that date ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A natural cycle of thawing may cause an Antarctic ice sheet as big as Texas and Colorado combined to melt away in 7,000 years, possibly causing a worldwide sea level rise of about 16 ...

Last week, scientists learned that 40-foot piles of compacted sea ice — some of the oldest and most durable clusters in the Arctic — are breaking away from the coast of Greenland and drifting out to ...