1976, Berger & Loutre 1991). Because the major changes in Earth's ice masses occurred in the Northern Hemisphere where much of the Earth's land surface presently resides, it is hypothesized that ...

As National Geographic showed us in 2013, sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the ...

As National Geographic showed us in 2013, sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the ...

Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. A new study published in the journal Nature shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the ...

There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in a vulnerable position, but the situation may be less dire than initially believed. Scientists have been eyeing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, for some ...

But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south ... The more we know about Earth's icy environments ...

As Greenland’s ice moves off the land and into the sea, and glaciers at the bottom of the planet do the same, Earth’s oceans ... wipes their homes off the map. Even the coastal communities ...