On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...

With demand for rare earth minerals expected to reach up to seven times current levels by 2040, Greenland’s winning ticket to ...

This is the mesmerizing moment massive ice sheets shatter like shards of crystal as they are pushed onto shore from Sayram Lake in Xinjiang, China on April 16. This natural phenomenon is called an ice ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

New Delhi: The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting fast, and the process may be impossible to stop, a new study has warned. This could lead to several feet of sea level rise and force ...

Now, Earth has just two ice sheets: one covers most of Greenland, the largest island in the world, and the other spans across the Antarctic continent, according to the National Snow and Ice Data ...

Underneath miles-deep ice sheets covering Antarctica lies the largest mountain range no one on Earth has ever seen. Even though a few of its tallest points peek through in some places, relatively few ...

West Antarctica, home to one of Earth's largest ice sheets, sits atop a volcanic hotspot known as the West Antarctic Rift. This region contains over 100 volcanic centers—many hidden beneath ice ...