What happens when the world’s most frozen places start thawing at the same time? For decades, Antarctica seemed like the ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

A new study has revealed that the Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasingly faster rate due to huge underwater waves that churn up warm seawater. A GreenFjord project research team unveiled ...

When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaciers lose mass, and has long been a dramatic visualization of changes in ice ...

The glacier’s retreat has been ongoing, but scientists believe within a few years it will be separated from Mendenhall Lake.

On Greenland’s coast, glaciers meet the sea in narrow fjords that have been carved over hundreds of thousands of years. Ice cliffs tower hundreds of meters high. At a glacier’s terminus, where those ...

Scientists are keeping a close eye on the Antarctic ice shelf as recent activity could soon cause rapid melting and rising sea levels. The sea ice in Antarctica has likely met its minimum extent for ...

Nettles, M., Larsen, T. B., Elsegui, P., Hamilton, G. S., Stearns, L. A., Ahlstrm, A. P., Davis, J. L., Andersen, M. L., de Juan, J., Khan, S. A., Stenseng, L ...

New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – some spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen regions are ...