Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a scenario for a science fiction movie, but the ...

The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the ...

The planet is edging close to irreversible change, according to the most comprehensive probability analysis yet of climate ...

Despite being overlooked down at the South Pole, Antarctica actually plays a large role in our world and you would notice if ...

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

Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

Roland Emmerich's popcorn flick earned praise from the former vice president for alerting millions to the dangers of global ...

Penguin chicks, whose coats are made of fluffy down feathers, aren't as protected from the rain as adult penguins. Getting ...

The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...

This global warming can be ignored ... Sixth, the massive ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica are melting. In the past, these ice caps lost ice during the summer months but replaced these ...