This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica in February 2026. (Copernicus Sentinel-2/ESA) Two of ...

Antarctica gained about 695 billion metric tons of ice between July 2021 and April 2023, the largest 22-month mass increase ...

Scientists have identified an ancient, river-carved landscape hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, untouched for more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sophie Nowicki, a University at Buffalo expert on climate change, ice sheets and sea level rise, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut ...

The longest satellite record ever compiled shows the vast majority of ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is due to ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of melting. Researchers dig into this "after" period and see how it relates to ...

Ice sheets are fundamental components of the Earth system. Antarctica and Greenland, the two ice sheets currently on Earth, ...

Roughly 90 percent of the entire ice in the world is saved in the Antarctic. If large quantities of these ice sheets were to ...

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of ...