Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings. This dramatic melting could cause serious issues for coastal ...

See map and dramatic photos of their ... Current ice cap data are gathered by satellite and submarines, which can show the overall span of the Arctic ice melt, but these projections are not ...

Scientists examined satellite images of more than 1,700 ... known as the ‘terminus’, begins to melt, shrinking the overall length of the ice cap. Marine-terminating glaciers - which flow ...

They're doing what they've been doing for more than a decade: measuring how the park's storied glaciers are melting ... and ice melts, more water flows to the seas from glaciers and ice caps ...

But underneath all that melting ice is ... drips from glacier ice in Disco Bay, Greenland, revealing bare earth beneath. [Image: Science Photo Library/Getty Images/Grist] Rare earth elements ...

BBC Science Editor David Shukman has looked into how worried we actually should be about melting polar caps. Researchers studying planet K2-18b's atmosphere have detected signs of molecules which ...