A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in a record melt last year. That's 140 trillion gallons of water or enough to cover all of California in more than four feet ...

Striking photographs capture the life amongst dynamic, statuesque chunks of rapidly melting ice—and an uncertain ... Norwegian photographer Stian Klo’s photography of icebergs and the life ...

But fresh, cool water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the salty water of the ocean, potentially disrupting the vital ocean current. Our new research suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar ...

Their study, published in Nature Geoscience, shows how individual flood events influence the melting ... through the ice sheet to the Antarctic mainland beneath, they encountered water and ...

Melting permafrost in the Arctic is releasing toxic mercury into the water system ... in PNAS in July found. Pack Ice breaking in the Arctic Mb Photography/Getty Images A recent study of fossils ...

Antarctica’s melting ice sheets may retreat faster ... to the difference in density between the fresh water flowing out from beneath the ice sheet and the relatively warm ocean water where ...

Researchers have, for the first time, directly observed the flow of water beneath the ice of West Antarctica. They drilled a 500-metre-deep hole through the Antarctic ice sheet until they reached ...