The study focuses on two masses of ice currently sitting on land: The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. As temperatures rise, that ice is melting, flowing into the ocean and making sea levels rise.

Melting ice sheets are slowing the world’s strongest ocean current, researchers said Monday. An influx of fresh water from the melting sheets is changing the properties of the ocean and its ...

It is not normally possible to forecast when icebergs break free, or calve. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

R esearchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand ...

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 ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

Melting at the interface between ice sheets and the ocean in the Arctic is much more extensive than previously estimated, according to a study published Monday in Proceedings of the National ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has seen a reverse shift in land mass after decades of melting. Getty Images The researchers analyzed data from the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ...