Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before — underneath massive ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...