Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.

Scientists were lucky to have the research vessel nearby when the glacier calved, which helped them examine the iceberg ...

They want to pop the hood and try to figure out how it ticks. On one side, inland, is the gargantuan East Antarctic ice sheet, where snowfall welded over aeons is piled 4 kilometres deep on bedrock.

Whenever large icebergs detach from Antarctica, the international community are understandably alarmed. Not only is this ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed the melting underside of an Antarctic ice shelf, Earth.com reported. An ...

The George VI Ice Shelf has experienced significant melting in recent years ... The implications of such ice loss are far-reaching. Glacier melting contributes to sea-level rise and can disrupt global ...

The tiny ice inhabitants darken the glacier's surface, which can accelerate its melting. Glaciers are massive bodies of white ...

Glacier Database, Version 1 data set, available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated. This update includes new glacier ...

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

Since solar flux has not yet been measured within ice on Mars, the team employed glacier ice in Greenland as an analog. Their results showed that in all cases, most of the solar radiation is ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...