The question relates to a major collapse of the sheet sufficient to free many cubic kilometers of ice into the sea where it would melt more rapidly. (realclimate.org)
Last year's record melting left 4.1 million square kilometers of ice still intact. (treehugger.com)
The collaboration's report on the first cosmic neutrino records from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, collected from instruments embedded in one cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole, was published Nov. 22 in the journal Science. (sciencedaily.com)