Coastal cities from Miami to Mumbai sit on land that would vanish beneath the ocean if Earth’s two largest ice sheets, ...

Greenland’s ice sheet is losing mass fast enough to raise global sea levels by roughly 0.69 millimeters each year, a rate ...

Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.

Scientists have identified a hidden climate tipping point that changed how Antarctica's ice sheet responds to warming.

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice ...

Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an understudied and ...

Antarctica is the world’s great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth’s climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometres of sea ice around the ...

Sea ice near Antarctica during the Southern Hemisphere summer in 2019. There is significantly less sea ice around Antarctica this year than ever recorded before. It is deep winter in Antarctica, the ...

Antarctic sea ice levels reached record-breaking lows last week — and this "extraordinary behavior" could mark the start of its long-term decline, scientists warn. As of June 27, the extent of sea ice ...

It is deep winter in Antarctica, the time of year that the continent is shrouded in darkness and surrounded by millions of square miles of frozen ocean. But this year there is a lot less sea ice than ...