The unprecedented rates of warming and melting of vast ice masses in Greenland have also led to movements in the bedrock from ...

Two studies noted that current measurements and simulations may not adequately consider processes that retain meltwater.

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rainforests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Worse, these systems ...

The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice” looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath the ice sheet that was stored at the ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp spike in platinum concentrations, discovered in an ice core (a cylinder of ...

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 ...