Researchers were shocked to discover that a weather station at the top of the Greenland ice sheet had registered temperatures ...

On 13 January, an iceberg the size of Chicago named A-84 broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet.

Iceberg B15Z, which measures 24 kilometres long, 11 kilometres wide and 78 metres high, has been floating off Antarctica since a huge chunk broke off the Ross Ice Sheet more than 17 years ago ...

Twenty ice shelves showed signs that they were melting from warm water below. Changes in wind currents pushed that relatively warmer water closer to and beneath the floating ice shelves.

A file photo of Ice floating near the coast of western Antarctica. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) The rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt now appears unstoppable regardless of how much fossil fuel ...

Ice shelves, like Wordie, act as a kind of brake on glaciers flowing from the ice sheet towards the sea. When an ice shelf vanishes, the glaciers lose this support and can begin to float and melt ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

Containing around 750,000 cubic miles of ice – enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly 3 billion times – the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a rich reservoir of precious frozen freshwater.

If all the ice sheets were to melt due to global warming, Antarctica would raise global sea levels by at least 183ft (56m). Given their size, even small losses in the ice sheets could have global ...

A teenage boy who was stranded on a floating ice sheet in Nunavut had to shoot a menacing polar bear in order to stay alive, says a spokesman with the Nunavut government.