The melting of ice sheets and glaciers has significantly increased in recent decades and when certain thresholds are crossed, these melting mechanisms can reinforce themselves, accelerating this ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic sea level rise of up to 65 feet in just 500 years or less. Despite the ...

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

The Eurasian Ice Sheet retreated by 2,000 feet a day during the last ice age, a study finds. It may show how fast ice and glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica could melt and raise sea levels today.

In addition to this upward movement, the melting ice affects the surrounding ocean. Ice sheets exert a gravitational pull on nearby water, drawing the sea toward the ice mass.

Scientists also have also warned about the potential consequences if the Greenland ice sheet were to melt. Greenland's melting ice mass is now the No. 1 driver of sea level rise, according to Paul ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of how current ice melting will affect levels ...

Start to melt an ice sheet and the same cycle spins in reverse. Today, feedbacks are, to put it mildly, a growing concern.

The world's largest icebergs break off the Antarctic ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a unique environment around them.

A new coastline Greenland's coastline is being redrawn, both by changes in the extent of surface ice and by melting glaciers flowing into the sea.

The world's glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impact of climate change, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date. Mountain glaciers - frozen rivers of ...