The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried ...

In an age of rising sea levels, as polar ice sheets melt in a climate warmed by fossil fuel emissions, climate modelers are ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 to 5 meters (13 to 16 feet).

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

At a remote field camp, scientists and engineers are on a mission to discover when and how fast the West Antarctic could melt ...

In this video we board the Airbus H225 SAR (search and rescue) helicopter operated by Air Greenland on behalf of Denmark's ...

Argo floats are free-floating robotic oceanographic instruments. As they drift, they rise and fall through the ocean to ...

A new documentary is shedding light on a remarkable period in Earth’s history—one when large parts of Greenland, now buried ...

According to Sports Business Journal, the International Ice Hockey Federation approved a 60-meter by 26-meter ice sheet. That ...