As the ice caps melt, ... “If I were to make a prediction, I would envisage a growing fraction of the Peninsula’s landscape becoming dominated by a mosaic ecosystem of mosses, ...

In an ever-warming climate, rippling effects or chain reactions could lead to altered weather patterns across the globe thanks to a melting Antarctic ice sheet.

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

Needless to say, this camera-toting sailor from Iowa has photographed a lot of ice. And, over the course of recent years, he has watched a lot of it melt. The powerful images captured by Thoreson ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as ...

Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square miles, a new JPL study found ice loss in Greenland is far worse than previously thought and Antarctic ice is now at the lowest level since ...

The melt, he says, is already adding extra heat at an annual rate of 3 billion tons of CO2 — the equivalent of 500 coal-powered plants, or more than 40% of all U.S. fossil fuel emissions — and ...

The ice in the Earth’s ice caps has formed over centuries during which formation was greater than melting. The Antarctic ice sheet averages more than 1.5km (or 1,500 meters) thick and in places ...