The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of large parts of the ice sheets collapsing, if ...

cracks and splits away from Antarctica, the world watches in stunned silence as nature displays its unstoppable power. The sight of an enormous slab of ice, sometimes the size of entire countries, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But is that kind of rapid collapse really as likely as feared? A new study of Thwaites Glacier's ...

Global warming is putting the continent’s ice at risk of destruction in many forms. But one especially calamitous scenario might be a less pressing concern, a new study found. By Raymond Zhong For ...

Mathieu Morlighem receives funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Heising Simons Foundation, and Dartmouth College. But is that kind of rapid collapse really as likely as feared? A ...

Inès Otosaka receives funding from the European Space Agency and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and ...