The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on 21 March 2025 was lower than at any time since continuous satellite ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

Arctic sea ice hit a historic low this winter, shrinking to the smallest extent ever recorded at its seasonal peak. NASA and ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice ... Rates of sea level rise peaked at more than 0.4 inch ...

Antarctica’s massive ice sheet looks flat. Although the continent’s expansive layer of ice rises 13,400 feet above sea level near its ... 20 years of work to map the hidden continent cloaked ...

scientists are looking back to a time when the planet last emerged from an ice age and experienced changes in sea level. A recent study published in the journal Nature provides a rare and detailed ...

Sea ice can be measured in many ways, such as sea ice area. Sea ice area is the area covered by sea ice, measured in square kilometres (km 2). Sea ice area can be compared with a reference period to ...

And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians that featured a designer bag with a map of the world showing the disputed South China Sea islands under Beijing’s control.

The new geological data provides new insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago, in a period referred to as the Holocene. This ...