This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

A new study shows that we're skating on thin ice when it comes to Antarctica's ice sheets. Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble. While ice melting is nothing new, harmful carbon pollution ...

A new study published in Nature unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored ...

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

一项新研究发现，本世纪南极西部冰盖的融化速度将继续加快，速度比20世纪快三倍。 发表在《自然气候变化》杂志上的这项研究被科学家们称为 ...

NASA's repeated laser altimeter readings show the edges of Greenland's ice sheet shrinking. Spring freshwater ice breakup in the Northern Hemisphere now occurs nine days earlier than it did 150 ...

Doctoral candidate Karen Williams embarked on computer modeling research to find out about the Earth’s changes after the melting of the Laurentide ice sheet, which once covered Canada and a large part ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Our planet’s ice sheets are melting. The glaciers found in Greenland and the Arctic ...

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year, with marine ice sheets collapsing and terrestrial ice sheets retreating in a more gradual fashion.

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ...

And with melting ice sheets dangerously inflating global sea levels, oceans have begun encroaching land at feverish rates all over the planet. One of the leading proponents of this sea level spike ...

A new study unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during summer months. For the first time, an international group ...