Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

Yet, the ice sheets of this frozen continent are increasingly catching the world’s attention, not solely because of their beauty but due to their ominous potential impact on global sea levels and, ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed the melting underside of an Antarctic ice shelf, Earth.com reported. An ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather patterns. Once a symbol of international cooperation that helped heal the ...

ice over Greenland isn’t melting fast enough to have much of an impact on the planet’s continental drift. But it could still have a major influence on Iceland over the next several hundred years, ...

As the name Bedmap3 implies, this is the third map of Antarctica produced ... the lake is controlled by the ice sheet thickness, and the cycle of freezing and melting at the base of the ice ...