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.

At Jakobshavn Glacier in west-central Greenland, thinning peaked at 67 meters, while Zachariae Isstrøm in the northeast reached 75 meters. Across the 13-year period, the ice sheet lost 2,347 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rare black iceberg spotted off the coast of Labrador is making a splash on social media after a fish harvester living in ...

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.