Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.

Huge expanses of ice are melting alarmingly fast, raising new concerns about "catastrophic consequences for humanity," a study published May 20 says. The study focuses on two masses of ice currently ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of large parts of the ice sheets collapsing, if ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the northern hemisphere. The ice sheet has already lost over a trillion tonnes of ...

Jack Wharton receives funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and the European Union's Horizon Europe Project EPOC. David Thornalley has received grant funding from NERC, NSF, ...

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...

Seattle’s geography resulted from an ice sheet that scoured the landscape 16,000 years ago. From the hills and ridges that all run north to south to the huge freshwater lakes that define the region, ...