A team of climate researchers and engineers is working with local Arctic communities to try to address melting sea ice.

The most recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessment report estimated that global mean sea-level rise ...

Melting sea ice is a global problem with far-reaching consequences. As the Arctic and Antarctic lose ice faster than expected ...

New research shows polar ice sheets may begin irreversible collapse even at 1.5°C warming - putting millions at risk.

Freezer becomes our biggest need in summers, sometimes to keep cold water, sometimes to keep ice cubes. However, now women ...

The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May ...

Nearly 200 countries have pledged to try to keep the planet's warming to 1.5C, but the researchers warn that this should not ...

Scientists have discovered "ice piracy" in Antarctica, where glaciers are stealing ice from their neighbors at an alarming ...

Scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to uncover a buried river system that may reshape predictions of melting and ...

Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice lies a system of lakes and watercourses. A research team, including ETH researchers, has for ...

Glaciers not only draw millions of visitors to these locations ... likely due to freshwater inflow from melting ice sheets and sea ice. The problem stems from the fact that freshwater has a ...

As the polar ice sheets melt faster in the warming climate ... by a thaw of ice from Greenland to Antarctica that is set to re-draw global coastlines. Sea level rise threatens cities from Shanghai ...