In a groundbreaking discovery, Spanish researchers have unveiled a massive underwater mountain off the coast of Lanzarote, ...

The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on ...

Sea ice surrounding the continent expands outward ... The hole was named the Maud Rise polynya for the seamount, or underwater mountain, located beneath it in the Weddell Sea.

They do worry, however, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might shrink enough to raise global sea levels appreciably in the coming centuries. The worst-case scenario is a complete collapse of the ...

Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly over the past half century, and its extent has declined by about 10 percent in the past 30 years. NASA's repeated laser altimeter readings show the edges ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...