The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

Human-caused climate change has made the future of the West Antarctic ice sheet uncertain ... of the last interglacial period, changes in Earth’s orbit raised Antarctic temperatures even ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise ...

Throughout much of Earth's history, the climate has switched between periods of extreme heat and freezing cold. Cold, glacial periods are characterized by large ice sheets in the Northern ...

During deglaciation, melting of kilometers-thick ice sheets reduces the mass weighing down the land, which leads to uplift. This alters the pressure inside magma chambers lying below the Earth's ...