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 ...

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.

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

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

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 ...

Polar Research and Policy Initiative said that US might have a future as an exporter of fresh water, thanks to an ice sheet ...

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 ...