The melting of ice sheets and glaciers has significantly increased in recent decades and when certain thresholds are crossed, ...

The world's massive ice sheets and glaciers are melting as climate change raises temperatures. Scientists warn that disappearing ice is having surprising and far-reaching effects. Take a quiz ...

A new study by the British Antarctic Survey concludes warmer seawater may work in a similar way on the undersides of ground-based ice sheets, melting them faster than previously thought.

Melting ice could collapse suddenly, raising sea levels abruptly. These melting glaciers and ice sheets are the ones scientists are watching most closely. The Earth's ice is, rightly, often in the ...

Scientists previously hypothesized that a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could mitigate the warming of the Amundsen Sea, which contributes to melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Melting Antarctic ice sheets reduce the pressure on underlying land, causing uplift and altering magma chamber pressures, which can lead to more frequent and larger volcanic eruptions.

Now, the melting of Earth’s ice sheets, accelerated by human-driven warming, is influencing those motions. The melting of Earth’s large ice masses has made days ever so slightly longer in ...

Any increase in activity will release heat as well as lava and ash, which will cause the ice sheet to warm from below as well as up top and where it meets the ocean, causing still more melting.

The West Antarctic ice sheet is set to melt faster even if the world rapidly cuts emissions, according to a new study. That could lead to more significant sea level rise over the course of centuries.

An international group of scientists who work with satellite data say the acceleration in the melting of Earth's ice sheets is now unmistakable. They calculate the planet's frozen poles lost 7,560 ...