The fate of the world's coastlines is being written right now, in the most remote corners of the planet. Polar ice sheets are not just frozen wilderness - they are the single greatest variable in ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.

After analyzing three decades of satellite radar data, scientists have created the first continent-wide record of Antarctic ...

A new study shows that rising temperatures and increased pollution could melt the Greenland ice sheet almost entirely over the next 1,000 years. This high-emission scenario would lead to a nearly ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

Extreme ice melt in Greenland is expanding rapidly, with meltwater production increasing sixfold since 1990, new research ...

A new map reveals where Antarctica is retreating fast, exposing hidden hotspots of grounded ice loss and future sea level ...

A study led by the University of Barcelona and published in the journal Nature Communications shows that climate change has profoundly altered extreme episodes of melting in the Greenland ice sheet by ...