East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem unmeltable. It survived earlier warm periods intact. Lately it ...

New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions of North America melted – a discovery has implications for modern ice sheets and glaciers in the face ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Around 14,500 years ago, a rapid sea level rise of up to 65 feet occurred due to melting ice sheets, known as Meltwater Pulse 1a. An updated physical model ...

As Earth heats up, glaciers and ice sheets are slowly disappearing. Climate change is causing extreme changes in ice cover levels — the rate of ice loss has steadily increased over the past 25 years, ...

A University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets and glaciers are deforming and moving. Just published in the journal Nature ...