Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of all freshwater ice on Earth is sitting on top of Greenland and Antarctica ... to thousands of years for it all to melt away. But what if something happened ...

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 ozone ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

all of Greenland's ice were to melt, or all of Antarctica's. No expert expects either of these scenarios to happen anytime soon, certainly not in the next century. But as a kind of visual thought ...

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 ...

But fresh, cool water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the salty ... and Professor Matthew England from the University of New South Wales, who provided the outputs from the model simulation ...

Antarctica sea ice hit record lows for the end of the summer. These records lows are not good news for coastlines around the world. Here's what would happen to Earth if all the ice melted.

“I haven’t seen melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica,” said Pelto. “You see these kinds of melt events in Alaska and Greenland, but not usually in Antarctica.” Scientists ...

For the first time, scientists have documented an acceleration in the melt rate of permafrost, or ground ice, in a section of Antarctica where the ice had been considered stable. The melt rates ...