A team at the University of Colorado Boulder identified a process that caused a glacier in Antarctica to retreat faster than ...

In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

The idea of anything being preserved beneath a mile of glacial ice seems like something out of a science-fiction movie. But a new documentary, The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice, chronicles not ...

Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, have revealed the presence of a vast buried granite body—almost 100 km across and 7 km thick, ...

A dramatic ICE raid on unlicensed sidewalk vendors in the Big Apple nabbed a crew of dangerous illegal migrants — including Senegalese outlaws with lengthy rap sheets for drug trafficking, robbery, ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled. However, not all ...

The effects of a record heat wave from February 2020 on Eagle Island in Antarctica. Photo: NASA This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization ...