While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...

However, as the team flew over the vast expanse of snow and ... three-dimensional view of the ice sheet. Unlike traditional radar, which creates a flat profile of the ice, UAVSAR has the ability ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research ... an accurate prediction of how water moves over ...

But modeling how water behaves over ice sheets is tough, especially when observations are lacking. Most water vapor isotope studies have focused on lower latitudes, where it’s easier to fly ...

During cold (glacial) cycles, ice ... sheet physics, believes MISI may be inevitable. "In all our simulations, West Antarctica collapses," Morlighem told Live Science, referring to model ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet ... of how water moves over Greenland.