Scientists have made a surprising discovery about what lies under the Antarctic ice sheet. Covered in ice for around 34 ...

Beneath Antarctica’s colossal ice sheets, there’s a world that few people have ever seen until now. Well, technically ...

For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath ...

Scientific studies from beneath Greenland’s vast ice sheet have revealed that the region may be far more vulnerable to ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

Greenland’s ice sheet melted more last year than any year previously recorded, according to a new study, in another sign of the devastating impacts of a warming planet.. The research, published ...

Greenland’s ice sheet dumps more than 280 billion metric tons of melting ice into the ocean each year, making it the greatest single contributor to global sea level rise, according to Michalea ...

Greenland's disappearing ice sheet worries scientists: "One degree is everything" 04:31 The Greenland Ice Sheet is on track to melt four times faster than it has at any point over the last 12,000 ...

Using the UK's national supercomputer, researchers developed four future melting projections. In the best-case projection, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melts three times faster in the 21st century ...

The ice sheet would have dwindled slowly, like an ice cube moved from the freezer to the fridge. The current melting in Greenland is more akin to an ice cube moved from the freezer to an oven.

An Ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers (19,305 square miles). The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland ...