In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is the single largest contributor to sea level rise along with the Greenland Ice Sheet. Together they hold most of the world’s fresh water.

In addition to the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, there are more than 275,000 glaciers—or crystal cones, as Zemp calls them—in mountain ranges from the tropics to the polar regions.

A new study reveals that Greenland's ice sheet is fracturing at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, potentially contributing significantly to future sea level rise. Researchers from ...

Figure 1a. The left map illustrates the cumulative melt days on the Greenland Ice Sheet for the 2024 melt season through October 31. The map on the right illustrates the difference from the 1981 to ...

Polar ice melt contributes to sea level rise. To understand this contribution, we need to examine the anomalous behaviors leading to significant snowmelts in polar regions, including the Greenland ice ...