July 15 marks World Arctic Sea Ice Day, a campaign organized by Polar Bears International to raise awareness about the rapid ...

The first thing to do, though, is to stop panicking, because it will take longer than a century for the polar ice caps to melt completely. But what if we sped things up just a little?

In the late 2000s, Al Gore made a series of high-profile statements suggesting the possibility that Arctic sea ice could be completely gone during the summer by around 2013 or 2014. What's False ...

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One speculates ...

The Icy Earth The ice caps that adorn Earth’s North and South poles are so ingrained into our mental geography that their presence is often no more than an afterthought. Even grade-schoolers know to ...

A lake has formed in the middle of the Arctic ice cap thanks to rising global temperatures.

On frosty Ellesmere Island, where Arctic Canada butts up against the northwestern edge of Greenland, two once-enormous ice caps have completely vanished, new NASA imagery shows. "When I first ...

But that's nothing compared to the extreme sea level rise if the polar ice caps melt entirely. If that were to happen, entire regions and countries would be completely under water.

New research shows polar ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than before, causing rising sea levels that affect Florida.

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