Ice-sheet regime shifts with climate warming
Nature Geoscience, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02010-4
Ice sheets are steady in cold climates, become unstable as warming weakens ice shelves, then restabilize at higher temperatures. Model simulations suggest sudden shifts between states are driven by ice-shelf variability, not ice volume.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/ThoughtCo_List_Of_Radioactive_Elements_608644_V12-e91d220318ed4143a7ff5a9407af6555.png)