The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in a vulnerable position, but the situation may be less dire than initially believed. Scientists have been eyeing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, for some ...

Scientists have been eyeing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, for some time now. That's because its collapse, which seemed more and more likely given the warming climate, would raise sea levels ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

This is what’s happening as the Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks. Covering the world’s largest island, the Greenland Ice Sheet is ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

A new study reveals that dark-pigmented microalgae, which contribute to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, are highly efficient at nutrient uptake and growth, allowing them to rapidly ...

Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers ...

Powerful storms called atmospheric rivers, which scientists think will become more intense as the planet warms, can replenish Greenland’s vanishing ice sheet if their timing is right 1.

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators ...