Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

Using satellite data, scientists examined the changing states of polar ice and drafted velocity maps that revealed a dramatic ...

The frozen edges of Antarctica are less stable than they appear. Beneath the wide, seemingly immovable shelves of ice, the ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...

Scientists from the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 379 showed that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated ...

A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident...but perhaps not for much longer.