Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like ... East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem ...

Glaciers across the globe are in retreat at a pace that can be difficult to predict with precision. Research published last year in the journal Nature suggested that Greenland’s ice sheets are ...

An increasing number of luxurious expedition cruises and cruise-only voyages on larger liners has brought a surge of ...

The world's largest icebergs – which can be larger than entire countries in some cases – break off the Antarctic ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a unique ...

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, known for its sensitivity to climatic ... quest to understand and mitigate the effects of a ...

They do worry, however, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might shrink enough to raise ... Below, see what would happen to selected coastlines around the world if such a disintegration occurred.

The result of Marlin’s unplanned observations was major for researchers at the UK-based University of East Anguila. For the first time, the research revealed how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been ...

Ice caps on both poles of the planet are melting. And not just a few. All of them. If all this ice melted, it would be ...

That means that the Greenland ice sheet — the world's second-largest ice body — would continue to lose ice even if global temperatures stop rising. In their study, published Thursday in the ...

The world has three ice sheets, Greenland, East Antarctica and West Antarctica, but it is the latter that is considered most vulnerable to climatic shifts. “It has been hypothesised for more ...

Antarctica, known as the world's coldest and most remote continent, is now a booming travel destination, attracting more ...

In late 2016, scientists spotted a rapidly growing fissure extending across the enormous Larsen C Ice Shelf that spills into ...