Greenland and coastal Louisiana may not seem to have a lot in common. An autonomous territory of Denmark, Greenland is covered in snow most of the year and is home to about 56,000 people. On the…
Data from NASA's GRACE and GRACE Follow-On satellites show that the land ice sheets in both Antarctica (upper chart) and Greenland (lower chart) have been losing mass since 2002. The GRACE mission…
Discoveries exposed by retreating ice include snowshoe for horses and bronze age ski
The retreat of a Norwegian mountain ice patch, which is melting because of climate change, has revealed a lost…
Scientists surprised by latest results but say carbon cuts remain vital to prevent ice loss becoming permanent.
The loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic is now very likely before 2050, new research…
Warm temperatures, clear weather and little snow all played a role in last summer’s major melt event on the ice sheet.
The Greenland ice sheet saw some of its highest melt rates on record last…
Think of Antarctica and it is probably sweeping expanses of ice, and the odd penguin, that come to mind. But at the time of the dinosaurs the continent was covered in swampy rainforest.
Now experts…
Analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer as Arctic experienced hottest year on record.
Last year’s summer was so warm that it helped trigger the loss of…
According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s – currently on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate…
A record high temperature of 18.3C (64.9F) has been logged on the continent of Antarctica.
The reading, taken on Thursday by Argentine research base Esperanza, is 0.8C hotter than the previous peak…
Scientists warn "the destiny looks poor" for Scandinavia's glaciers as Sweden's highest peak melts away.
The glacier-covered southern peak of Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain stands at 2,095.6 metres…
Greenland's massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned.
During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a…
Is our planet approaching a climate change cliff edge? Across the world, from the forests to the oceans, the consequences of humanity’s activities are being felt – and the effects could be…
An environmental vicious circle is taking hold in Russia and other parts of the Arctic as permafrost – the frozen ground beneath a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere and almost 20% of Earth’s…
Dahr Jamail on his book "The End Of Ice" and the significance of the many studies showing glaciers and sea ice around the world are melting at an unprecedented speed.