If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

Normally, it would take hundreds to thousands of years for it all to melt away ... goodbye to that mini European ice age, and even rivers and lakes around the world. They'd evaporate from the ...

sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. Produced by Alex ...

In the dim twilight of an Arctic winter’s day, with the low sun stretching its orange fingers across the frozen sea, a group ...

We're armed with crampons, ice axes ... Down on the bayou, all of those predictions make Windell Curole shudder. "We're the guinea pigs," he says, surveying his aqueous world from the relatively ...

A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in a record melt last year. That's 140 trillion gallons of water or enough to cover all of California in more than four feet ...

[AP Photo/Luca Bruno] A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 February 2025), finds that the world’s mountain ...

Warming temperatures are causing glaciers to melt around the planet, and the world's second-largest body of ice may now be past the point of no return, scientists say. Greenland's glaciers have ...

The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound ... and adaptation would be key in facing the challenges of a world with melted ice. Local communities would need to develop strategies to ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. If all of the ice in the world melted, sea levels would raise some 216 feet. But what ...