The fate of the world's coastlines is being written right now, in the most remote corners of the planet. Polar ice sheets are not just frozen wilderness - they are the single greatest variable in ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.

After analyzing three decades of satellite radar data, scientists have created the first continent-wide record of Antarctic ...

Greenland is one of the fastest-melting cryosphere regions on Earth. In fact, scientists say the large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible, and it’s happening now at an ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

A new study shows that rising temperatures and increased pollution could melt the Greenland ice sheet almost entirely over the next 1,000 years. This high-emission scenario would lead to a nearly ...

Extreme ice melt in Greenland is expanding rapidly, with meltwater production increasing sixfold since 1990, new research ...

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...