The study focuses on two masses of ice currently sitting on land: The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. As temperatures rise, that ice is melting, flowing into the ocean and making sea levels rise.

New research shows polar ice sheets may begin irreversible collapse even at 1.5°C warming - putting millions at risk.

According to the report, the planet's 275,000 glaciers, along with ice sheets, store 70% of our fresh water. However, they ...

The US will need to secure critical minerals from non-Chinese sources because the future will be, by necessity, metals ...

Last month, President Donald Trump said the United States needed Greenland “very badly,” renewing his threat to annex the Danish territory. Greenland is a resource-rich island with a plentiful supply ...

John joined Newsweek in 2020 after reporting in Central Europe and the United ... an abandoned U.S. nuclear base buried beneath Greenland's ice sheet since the Cold War. During a research flight ...

A fish harvester from Carbonear, N.L., snapped a photo of a black iceberg while fishing for shrimp of the coast of Labrador ...

An international study published in Science finds that glaciers are even more sensitive to global warming than previously ...

Seas are forecast to rise from 8 inches to 23 inches along the nation’s coasts by 2050. But risks extend well past the ...

Widespread concern expressed at first global UN conference focused on glaciers, underway in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.