Month: October 2025

Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole.

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ice cap still seemed securely frozen.

But not anymore. Physics is physics. As the planet heats up, more ice will melt at both poles, and recent research shows that Antarctica’s ice caps, glaciers, and floating ice shelves, as well as its sea ice, are just as vulnerable to warming as the Arctic.

Both satellite data and field observations in Antarctica reveal alarming signs of a Greenland-like meltdown, with increased surface melting of the ice fields, faster-moving glaciers, and dwindling sea ice. Some scientists are sounding the alarm, warning that the rapid “Greenlandification” of Antarctica will have serious consequences, including an accelerated rise in sea levels and significant shifts in rainfall and drought patterns.

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Sonnensystem: Es stürmt mit 160 km/h auf dem Mars

Die Staubteufel auf dem Mars bewegen sich schneller über den Planeten als erwartet. Das haben ausgewertete Daten von zwei Esa-Raumsonden ergeben. (Mars, Raumfahrt)

Die Staubteufel auf dem Mars bewegen sich schneller über den Planeten als erwartet. Das haben ausgewertete Daten von zwei Esa-Raumsonden ergeben. (Mars, Raumfahrt)