The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

Antarctic Ice Sheet on the Verge of Collapse, Scientists Issue Urgent Warnings About Severe Global Damage. Global environmentalists were concerned about several factors that were affecting the ...

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Scientists aren’t too optimistic and have said there’s a 'grim outlook' if the glacier melts, plunging parts of the world ...

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 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 ...

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.