Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...

Studies of historic ice sheets, such as Kelley and Jackson's, allow researchers to learn what caused them to collapse. Ice ...

Satellites reveal 85 new lakes beneath Antarctica’s ice, exposing a shifting underworld that influences glaciers and future sea-level rise.

An ancient fragment of glacial ice was blessed by Pope Leo XIV on stage at a climate conference, imparting words of hope to ...

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a mathematical formula to predict the size of lakes that form on melting ice ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough salt, that electrical charge becomes exponentially greater. Not only is all ...

Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice has the superpower of generating electricity in response to the physical stress ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said ...

Spending the night on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where the sun never sets and the ice never stops moving, is an adventure ...

Midnight view of the Greenland Ice Sheet near Ilulissat in July 1991. The background shows the vast ice sheet, while the foreground fjord is choked with icebergs released by one of the world’s fastest ...