About 1,000 years ago, a Viking woman named Ingrid built a wharf to load ships at a bay on the Swedish coast and commemorated ...

Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times as fast as the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.

Sea levels are rising faster than at any time in 4,000 years, scientists report, with China’s major coastal cities at ...

A sudden, record-breaking glacier collapse in Antarctica is revealing how unseen forces beneath the ice could reshape the ...

Rising seas were never an issue for Donald Webster for the first 45 years he lived and farmed alongside the Chesapeake Bay.

For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland's Helheim Glacier. Their ...

Learn how a coastal vulnerability assessment in Malibu identifies key areas at risk, like residential development, septic ...

The lines of artificial coastal developments might be neat and straight but in reality, they are fragmenting ecosystems and ...

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience ...