The key to building an affordable synthetic ice rink is choosing the right materials. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) or ...

For the hundreds of millions of people who live alongside the world's coasts, the scariest sea-level rise scenario is the idea that ice sheets could collapse. Seas are already rising rapidly ...

Scientists at the University of Lausanne have used AI for the first time to massively speed up computer calculations and ...

Scientists have released a new analysis of how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed, from 2003 to 2019. The study shows that ice losses from melting have outpaced increases in ...

Scientists have identified more than 50 new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland Ice Sheet. Only four had previously been detected. Antarctica hides some 470 lakes beneath its ice but ...

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year, with marine ice sheets collapsing and terrestrial ice sheets retreating in a more gradual fashion.