Greenland’s ice sheet is losing mass fast enough to raise global sea levels by roughly 0.69 millimeters each year, a rate ...

Hundreds of millions of people live in coastal zones that would vanish beneath the ocean if Greenland’s ice sheet released ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

Scientists have identified a hidden climate tipping point that changed how Antarctica's ice sheet responds to warming.

Greenland's Ice Sheet is shrinking, and the difference is visible from space. Its rapid melting could lead to "catastrophic consequences" for the entire world, says the European Space Agency. The ESA ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the Antarctic ice sheet became ...

The retreat of major ice sheets is governed by a complex interplay of climate forcing, internal ice dynamics and interactions with the ocean and underlying bed. As ice streams accelerate, they channel ...

"Suddenly, large areas are just falling to pieces." The post Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration appeared ...

Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf.