Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would cause devastating sea-level rise globally over the next few hundred years, report scientists in Norway.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

The lingering Laurentide Ice Sheet may have masked the true extent of Antarctic ice loss—offering a warning for future change. 100% = global mean sea level rise; areas above saw higher-than ...

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet ...

Melting ice sheet About 125,000 years ago, when Earth was warmer than preindustrial levels, Greenland was covered by a significantly smaller ice sheet, and the sea level was as much as 19 feet higher ...

Greenland ice sheet retreat across temperature thresholds, with ice loss beyond the 3.4°C tipping point. Grey shading represents areas experiencing glacial isostatic adjustment.

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. Using ...

Science New 3-D Study of the Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Glaciers Falling Apart Faster Than Expected Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the ...

Seattle’s geography resulted from an ice sheet that scoured the landscape 16,000 years ago. From the hills and ridges that all run north to south to the huge freshwater lakes that define the ...

OK, let's break that information down into chunks so it is easier to understand. Cordilleran ice sheet: The Cordilleran ice sheet covered most of Canada west of the Prairies, between 20,000 and 18,000 ...

Remnants of the Laurentide ice sheet lasted until about 7,000 years ago. Climate simulations show that they caused the multimillennial delay between maximum early Holocene solar radiation and ...

A novel radar image taken during an April NASA flight reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned US military base buried within the Greenland ice sheet. NASA Earth Observatory / USA ...