The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Scientists will camp on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds enough ice to raise sea levels by four to five ...

Hidden meltwater within Greenland’s Ice Sheet is challenging current climate models and reshaping sea-level rise predictions.

This Antarctic ice mass holds an immense volume of water that, if it melts, could set off a chain reaction, driving sea ...

An international science team is on an urgent mission to find out if the West Antarctic ice sheet is already doomed, or whether there is still time to stop burning fossil fuels to prevent 4-5 metres ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

New research shows that glaciers near active volcanoes flow faster than other glaciers. The findings suggest it would be ...

SHENZHEN -- A study conducted by multinational scientists has unveiled noticeable meltwater storage phenomena within the entire Greenland ice sheet, indicating 20 percent upscaling in meltwater ...

Scientists warned for the first time in a new report that melting ice sheets might be slowing key ocean currents at both ...

All people on Earth depend on the cryosphere. Snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost are significant reservoirs ...