Containing around 750,000 cubic miles of ice – enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly 3 billion times – the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a rich reservoir of precious frozen freshwater. Now ...

Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than previously ... seawater is "regularly' intruding beneath the glacier for a sizeable distance that was initially assumed to be "very small," Rignot said.

Training schools focused on modeling solid Earth responses to ice mass changes offer lessons on how early-career scientists ...

(CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the ...

And of course it could take many years before the entire Greenland ice sheet melts. But even a small amount of melt leads to a massive change in the sea level rise–could be five feet of sea ...

Drilling 500 meters through the ice sheet to the Antarctic mainland beneath, ... Only a small amount—less than one cubic meter per second—is fresh water, i.e., ...

An international team of scientists have discovered a mysterious, ancient landscape hidden beneath the ice sheet of Eastern ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown ... But the fate of Greenland is believed to be tied to that of its ice streams, which are more like small tongues that ring the ...

It’s an existential threat to the world’s coastal populations. Around 230 million people live less than 1 meter (3.2 feet) above sea levelEven small changes in the amount of ice held in the ...

It’s an existential threat to the world’s coastal populations. Around 230 million people live less than 1 meter (3.2 feet) above sea levelEven small changes in the amount of ice held in the ...

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even ...