Greenland’s rapidly melting ice is redrawing coastlines and impacting the global climate. Scientists say this Arctic region ...

For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It's ...

A glacier in Antarctica is rapidly redirecting ice from a neighboring glacier, revealing a new and urgent dynamic in ice flow ...

The potential sea-level rise contribution of all glaciers and ice caps amounts to about 0.5 m. This may seem little, compared with the two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, which host enough ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to ...

A new study warns the Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75% of its glaciers if global temperatures rise by 2°C. If warming ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury ...

To address these concerns, scientists are developing mitigation and adaptation strategies that they think could help save us ...

Glaciers are fields of land ice that form when ... For example, some of the smallest-sized ice sheets are called "ice caps." If an ice sheet extends out over water, it's known as an "ice shelf." ...

New projections show that temporarily overshooting this limit—even up to 3°C—would lock in severe and irreversible glacier ...