(CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the ...

Losses of land-based water could have profound implications for access to safe drinking water and the ability to grow food.

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May 20 says. Doyle Rice. USA TODAY. Hear this story.

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, where researchers led by Stewart Jamieson from ...

Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than previously thought, ... appears to be losing its ability to retain the frigid climate necessary to regulate temperatures in the rest of the world.

The ice sheet was hanging by a thread, ... It held approximately 750,000 cubic miles of ice, and a collapse would cause a devastating sea-level rise across the world.

Research allows for the development of strategies to combat climate change, taking into account the hidden landscapes ...

The world’s ice sheets just got a dire prognosis, and coastlines are going to pay the price. Mario Tama/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Ice floats near the coast of West Antarctica on October 28.

Even if the world sustains today’s level of warming, at 1.2 degrees, it could still trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and catastrophic sea level rise, the scientists found.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global ...