Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other.
The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and ...
Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.
While the island's colossal ice sheet rapidly melts, the land underneath it is rising ... billion metric tons of ice annually, which has only grown over time. Greenland may not remain the ...
As these Arctic glaciers melt and retreat onto land, steep cliffs and slopes once supported by solid ice are left hanging. The result? A fragile coastline that’s incredibly prone to landslides ...
During the 2023-2024 ice season, average ice cover across all five lakes was only 4.3% — the lowest on record since scientists began recording ice cover more than 50 years ago, according to data ...