Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden Antarctic threat that could accelerate global sea level rise far faster than expected.

Beneath Antarctica’s floating ice shelves, warm ocean water is carving hidden channels into the ice from below, and a study published in April 2026 reveals that scientists have been significantly ...

For several decades, scientists were tracking ice melts in Alaska. Now, the melting has revealed a hidden island that has ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

A study led by the University of Barcelona and published in the journal Nature Communications shows that climate change has profoundly altered extreme episodes of melting in the Greenland ice sheet by ...

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took ...

Rapidly melting ice shelves in Antarctica could trigger global sea levels to rise even faster than expected, scientists have ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...