OSLO (Reuters) - An accelerating thaw of Antarctica has pushed up world sea levels by almost a centimeter since the early 1990s in a risk for coasts from Pacific islands to Florida, an international ...

A photographic notebook from Robert Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition has been found after a century trapped in the ice of the frozen continent, New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust said. It ...

OSLO, - Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on Monday. Six glaciers, eaten ...

I fall in step with Fagre and two other research scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Program.

In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a result of human-caused global warming. At that time, most of Antarctica’s ...

Record winter deficit: The Bellingshausen Sea saw one of the largest winter ice shortfalls on record, with temperatures 20°C above average. Climate system impacts: Exposed ocean water absorbs and ...