A glaciologist and climate scientist is sounding the alarm at COP30 about the rapid shrinking of glaciers all over the world, ...

Underneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet lies one of the planet’s greatest mysteries. What would happen if every last piece of ice on the southern continent suddenly vanished? The consequences would be ...

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 ...

Ice, ironically, defines Greenland. Up to almost two miles thick in places, the ice that envelops the austerely beautiful island determines its ecology, its economy and its culture. What scientists ...

Scientists have long known that Earth’s ice is melting. Antarctica has seen some of the biggest losses of ice on record in recent years, and even the coldest places on the planet haven’t been able ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future. Reading ...

What physical influences is Greenland experiencing from climate change? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth hopes to address as a team of ...

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from ...