In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

What is an ice sheet? An ice sheet is a mass of glacial land ice extending more than 20,000 square miles. Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is not the only important ice mass on the planet, but it plays an especially critical role at this moment in climate history. Over the last few decades, the Greenland Ice Sheet ...