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To be sure, the IPCC report discusses tipping points at various temperature levels—such as species extinction, irreversible biodiversity loss, and loss of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctic—and these are serious.—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025 This second anomaly adds to a flow of heat at the base of a thick continental ice sheet, influencing the movement and melting of the ice, the study authors said.—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025 Even then, the number can swell to 352 days per year by 2070, depending on global emissions, temperature increases and the melt of Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets.—Jeremy Sabol, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025 Perhaps the most unexpected talent pipeline in the century-plus history of Minnesota Gophers hockey stretches nearly 900 miles, from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the ice sheet at 3M Arena at Mariucci.—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice sheet
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