Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

Scientists say that hidden melting beneath Antarctica’s ice could rapidly reshape sea levels, but they do not know when.

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...

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Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age ...