By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...

Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...

The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012.

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ... penned in a crowded patch of sea ice for decades until a few ...

If you've been feeling the January blues, a new job and a change of scenery might sound ... If all the ice sheets were to melt due to global warming, Antarctica would raise global sea levels ...

Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms ... Models suggest that this feedback loop could further destabilize the polar ice cap, with major implications for sea levels. Subglacial ...

While sea levels are certain to rise this century, projections of the contribution from Antarctic ice vary from a 44cm rise to a 22cm fall. Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes ...

Why Trust Us? The West Antarctic Rift System is home to over 130 volcanoes, many of which are locked away under thick layers of ice. A new study shows that glacial retreat coupled with isostatic ...

O.V.E.R.V.I.E.W. via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, could dramatically raise sea levels. In a study published Nov ...