The world’s biggest ice sheet could cause “several metres” of sea-level rise over centuries if the global temperature rises more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to a British study ...

An international research team has unearthed an exceptional glimpse into Earth’s glacial history. Buried beneath nearly a ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is now melting at an incredibly rapid pace, pushing sea levels upward while upsetting global weather ...

New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience the study provides the first ...

An international team of scientists unveiled exceptionally well-preserved glacial landforms buried nearly one kilometer ...

The biggest subglacial lake in Greenland is just 6km long. Extensive areas of water can pool under a kilometres-thick ice sheet for a number of reasons. Pressure from above and geothermal heat ...

This record indicates decreasing deep-water temperature, along with the build-up of continental ice sheets. Much of this deep-water cooling occurred in three major steps about 36, 15 and 3 million ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet has been losing mass since 1998, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and it's currently the second-biggest contributor to sea level rise after ...