The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research. A team of ...

“We now know that the reason we live on an Earth with ice caps—rather than an ice-free planet—is due to a coincidental combination of very low rates of global volcanism and highly dispersed ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes form ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing ...

Global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024, Earth's hottest year on record, according to an analysis released Thursday ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

The world’s seas rose by 0.59cm in 2024, well above the 0.43cm predicted by scientists. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar ... sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is ...