The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive chemical analysis, the researchers discovered just how extreme and outlier the ...

A top climate scientist says we may have crossed a dangerous tipping point in Antarctica—and the long-term fallout could be ...

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would cause devastating sea-level rise globally over the next few hundred years, report scientists in Norway.

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

If life can thrive and survive under the ice in Antarctica, it might also be possible it can thrive in extraterrestrial environments too' ...

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet.

Even the current level of global warming may already have locked in unstoppable ice melt, with a major new study warning of ...