Scientists say that hidden melting beneath Antarctica’s ice could rapidly reshape sea levels, but they do not know when.

Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method to monitor the Arctic's melting ice, which holds promise for improving the autonomy of marine vehicles, aiding in maritime ...

As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for centuries or even millennia. Those revelations are reshaping how I understand ...

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The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on Earth, and now we can see it—literally. As rising temperatures accelerate the pace of Arctic glacier retreat, nearly 2,500 kilometers of new ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

It's concerning enough that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica—including the infamous Doomsday Glacier—are melting at an accelerated rate, causing the ocean's great "conveyor belt" to pump the ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it. It's May. The sun is up and the heat from that distant star ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of ...