Even the current level of global warming may already have locked in unstoppable ice melt, with a major new study warning of ...

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...

Satellite data shows that Antarctic ice sheets have grown in size, prompting claims that climate change is in reverse or even ...

Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...

Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet. Like the moon, the gravity of the ice sheets ...

A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

Co-author Torsten Albrecht, a senior ice dynamics researcher at PIK, said there is mounting proxy climate evidence, from marine fossils and other sources, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet did ...