The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May 20 says.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

The study pulls from climate models, satellite images, and ancient data. This includes ice cores, seafloor mud, and even ...

The researchers stressed that even in the best-case climate scenarios, the melting process is unlikely to slow down meaningfully. Data collected from ice cores and seabed sediments indicate that past ...

The educational documentary discusses how climate change has affected the Earth’s temperature in a 60-minute film.

Even 1.5°C increase may not be sufficient to prevent ice sheets melting, says new study, suggesting that global warming must ...

A new study warns that even if the world meets its most ambitious climate goal, Greenland and Antarctica may still be doomed to melt.

Huge expanses of ice are melting alarmingly fast ... Northern Hemisphere during the ice age. Now, Earth has just two ice sheets: one covers most of Greenland, the largest island in the world ...

An image of the Greenland Ice Sheet from “The Memory of Darkness ... planners and the public to act now to reduce future melting. “Our children and grandchildren will suffer.