Global impact of Arctic ice melt: Otto warned that extreme weather events can affect everyone. As the Greenland ice sheet melts, it releases vast amounts of freshwater into the salty oceans.

Scientists from the Oregon State University conducted chemical analyses on air bubbles trapped within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core. They discovered that, in the last glacial period, ...

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Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...

Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report on Wednesday.

Lake Agassiz no longer exists, however, it was one of the largest lakes in North America during the last ice age at an estimated size of around 170,000 square miles. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet. Like the moon, the gravity of the ice sheets ...

Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.

A campaign to put a seasonal ice sheet on the rodeo arena at the Eagle County Fairgrounds is making progress, one $500 check and cup of lemonade at a time, but the clock is ticking. With Vail’s Dobson ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a ...

The preserved terrain offers a rare window into Antarctica's deep past, long before ice claimed the continent. 'What we find is an ancient land surface that has not been eroded by the ice sheet ...