At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska.

The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

Melting Arctic sea-ice may disrupt global climate, altering ocean currents and weather patterns, reveals new research.

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ...

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...

On average, Arctic sea ice melt ponds are only around 9 inches (22 ... But this pond was one of the largest observed, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.