Regional sea level around the Sunda Shelf and Singapore rose at rates of up to 15 mm per year during rapid ice melting events between 14.5 and 9 thousand years ago, faster than expected by 2150 ...

During interglacials, warm ocean water would have melted and thinned out the floating ice shelves that surround and protect West Antarctic Ice Sheet, leaving it vulnerable. 'In the past 800,000 ...

Because of melting sea ice, it is likely that more polar bears will soon starve, warns a new study that discovered the large carnivores need to eat 60 percent more than anyone had realized.

The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked the Lonza River, Swiss authorities said Thursday. The Birch Glacier ...

into a huge floating ice shelf. This frosty giant is the size of the US state of Florida and has been deemed "very unstable." Scientists have said it is thawing on all sides. Thwaites Glacier has ...

Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock after what ... The below video, satellite images, maps and photos show how the disaster unfolded.

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Maintaining the global ocean observing system and expanding its coverage in the deep ocean, the polar oceans, and continental shelves will be critical to prepare for ... This thermal expansion has ...

The gigantic waves — one of which measured 650 feet (200 meters) high, or about half the height of the Empire State Building — entered East Greenland's Dickson Fjord and rocked back and forth ...

Three years ago, 11 people were killed after a glacial ice shelf collapsed in the Dolomites in Italy following record-high temperatures. Swiss researchers have explicitly sounded the alarm over ...