The effects of the melting are devastating. At some point soon, the Arctic could be ice free. “Most models suggest that this could could happen around the middle of this century ...

The world's second biggest body of ice - the Greenland Ice Sheet - is cracking open quicker than scientists had previously thought. That's according to new research by a team of scientists, led by Dr ...

Temperatures at the North Pole breached 32 F (0 C), the melting point of ice, on Sunday (Feb. 2) after climbing 36 F above the region's daily average temperature recorded between 1991 to 2020, the ...

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New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

Formed by stresses at the surface, their direction and size tell us how the ice sheet is flowing towards ... responding to an influx of cold water from the north Atlantic ocean, the glacier ...

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 ...

Crevasses at Store Glacier, a marine-terminating outlet glacier of the western Greenland Ice Sheet. Credit: Tom Chudley (Durham University ... who led on the research. Credit: Durham University (North ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new large-scale study of crevasses on the world’s second largest body of ice.

The study found that crevasses are expanding more quickly than previously detected, and somewhere between 50 and 90 percent of the water flowing through the Greenland Ice Sheet goes through ...

Soldotna freshman Noah Crabtree scored a power-play goal with 45 seconds left in an eight-minute, sudden-death overtime to give the Stars a 2-1 victory over Kenai Central in the semifinals of the ...