Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

Hidden beneath the pristine white surface of Antarctica and Greenland lies an invisible crisis. While most people imagine ice melts from the top down when warmed by sun and air, the reality is far ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

New research has showed that meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet has intensified stratification in the Southern Ocean, ...

Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...

New study shows melting Antarctic ice adds only a small amount of iron to the ocean. Most iron comes from deep water and sea floor sediments.

Scientists discover that giant columns of softer ice within the Greenland ice sheet behave like pasta boiling, due to ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

Arctic sea ice has reached one of its lowest levels on record, with experts linking the decline to rising global temperatures ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

Climate change has significant yet odd effects on locations around the world. In some cases it affects migration patterns, ...