Overpumping groundwater, worsening droughts and more rapid evaporation due to higher temperatures have caused a drastic ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

The polar ice caps are melting. And this has already led to an increase in the sea level. Between now and 2100, it is estimated that the sea level will rise anywhere from 1 foot up to 7 feet.

The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we ...

The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea – a huge hole in the sea ice nearly four times the size of Wales, which ...

Ice sheet melting is the dominant contributor to rising seas, and the rate of annual sea level rise has doubled over the past 30 years. It’s set to get worse.

R esearchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand ...

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WASHINGTON — The rumblings of global warming are echoing across Greenland. Groups of scientists studying ancient climate, tweaking computer models of future climate and even listening to ...

A new study published in Nature provides key insights into sea level rise after the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago. Using data from the North Sea region, researchers found that sea levels ...