Understanding Why Antarctic Ice Loss Matters Antarctica may seem like another world—cold, distant, and forgotten—but what goes on there is already beginning to affect Antarctica may be remote, but ...

A mechanical issue during routine maintenance by an outside vendor resulted in the closure of the two ice sheets at Robert ...

Climate change is likely to have an explosive consequence: volcanic eruptions. Antarctic glaciers have been slowly melting as ...

Mountain communities are experiencing the devastating effects of accelerating glacial retreat, with rising temperatures ...

Scientists link Antarctic record sea ice loss to an unexplained spike in ocean salt levels, raising concerns about ocean stability.

Glaciers in western North America and Switzerland experienced their largest mass losses over the past four years ...

The Storis, named using a Scandinavian word that means “great ice,” will be the first new icebreaker to join the polar fleet ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as centuries-old artifacts are revealed for the first time. Take a look at some ...

Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding throughout the U.S., and globally, and is expected to ...