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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ice sheet centered over Norway ... of North Sea glacial history." By providing a new level of detail about ...