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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Japanese researchers in Antarctica are deploying Weddell seals fitted out with high-tech head-mounted measuring devices to survey waters under the thick ice sheet at the South Pole. It allows ...

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

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