"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years. Laid horizontally, the entire ice core's 2,800 ...

In a jaw-dropping feat, European scientists have pulled off something incredible: they’ve managed to extract ice that’s more ...