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

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 ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of ...

When massive ice sheets melt, the resulting increase in sea level ... Ice sheets are so massive that they exert significant gravitational pull, drawing surrounding ocean water toward them.

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Greenland has gained more than 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) of new coastline—not due to tectonic uplift, land reclamation, ...

Mount Kenya, the country's tallest peak and a major tourist attraction, is rapidly losing its snow and glaciers. Scientists warn the mountain could be completely ice-free by 2030, a grim forecast as ...