A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...

Greenland stands at the crossroads of environmental change, where ice meets water, and land rises anew. Its future will depend on both natural processes and human actions.

covering millions of square kilometres of land and ocean. At the end of spring, when the sun shines 24 hours a day, life flourishes at the floe edge. Here, where ice meets open waters, living ...

Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...