They wouldn't have encountered a speck of ice; even before the events we're talking about, Earth was already much warmer than it is today. But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

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More information: Madeleine Fol et al, Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model, Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference?

Without that warm air ... Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of all freshwater ice on Earth is sitting on top of Greenland and Antarctica, and each year, a little more of it melts into the ocean.

There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere ...

Research has predicted that the Arctic make experience ice-free summers as soon as 2050. If all the Earth's land ice were to melt our oceans would rise 216 feet. So what would this mean for Asia ...

1976, Berger & Loutre 1991). Because the major changes in Earth's ice masses occurred in the Northern Hemisphere where much of the Earth's land surface presently resides, it is hypothesized that ...