Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

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

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

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

With the soft crunching of snow underfoot, Jordan walks steadily through the imposing ice structure, heading "towards the ...

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

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

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 ...

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

A recent study reveals a surprising finding: a significant amount of meltwater is temporarily retained within the Greenland ...

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