The world's second biggest body of ice - the Greenland Ice Sheet - is cracking open quicker than scientists had previously ...

The sea ice in the Arctic was the second lowest on record for January last month, according to a US analysis released Tuesday ...

It is 84° north, longitude 160°, 400 miles from the North Pole (90° north, longitude 00°). is variously known as the Ice Pole, or the Inaccessible Pole or the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility.

Presents made by his army of elves at the North Pole. That last bit may have to change in the next twenty years once the Polar Ice Cap melts. But, come on, it’s Panto season so we all suspend ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off. The reason is that this unloading of ice sheets reduces pressure on magma chambers below the ...

The South Pole’s ice sheets – which contain up to 90% of the world’s total freshwater – are melting three times as fast as a decade ago. Antarctica shed three trillion tons of ice between ...

These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal melting”. Increased basal melting ...