A new study reveals that melting Antarctic sea ice could release massive amounts of trapped carbon dioxide, potentially ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

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 ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

Melting sea ice is a global issue with far-reaching consequences. As the Arctic and Antarctic are losing ice faster than expected, experts are noticing damaging ripple effects. Sea ice forms on the ...

The latest Red List of Threatened Species assessment released Friday shows that more than a quarter of all animals, plants ...

Buried Louisiana marshes show North America, not Antarctica, fueled the world’s dramatic sea level surge 9,000 years ago.

The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route ...

Discover what exactly will happen to our planet if it continues to warm at such unprecedented levels – from ice sheets ...

Arctic seals and many birds are in danger as ice melts and forests disappear. Green sea turtles show recovery.

Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage—a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship ...