New research explores the wide-ranging consequences of record low summer sea ice in Antarctica. From more ocean warming to ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of glaciers and ensure that those ...

This data set provides spatial distributions of fast ice and glacial ice in eight fjords spanning the Southeast Greenland coast: Nansen, Kangerlusruaq, Ikertivaq, Skjoldungen, Tingmiarmiut, ...

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has shown interest in expanding American presence in the Arctic through two ...

As more polluting, toxic gases get released, they trap more heat in the atmosphere, causing the planet to get warmer. Not ...

NUUK, Greenland -- For most of the year, Greenland is covered in ice and snow and its locals retreat indoors. But for three ...

An international study using glacier models shows that even stabilizing temperatures at today’s levels would still cause ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What ...

If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, a good portion of the resulting flood would drain through the NEGIS into the ocean, potentially raising global sea levels by 24 feet.

The sheet won’t melt all at once, of course, but scientists are increasingly concerned by signs of accelerating ice-sheet retreat. A recent report showed that it has been losing mass every year for ...