the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets contain more than 99 percent of freshwater ice on Earth. If they both completely melted, they would raise sea level by an estimated 67.4 meters (223 feet).

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

New research on historical sea-level rise will give scientists new knowledge into how global warming will affect the earth’s ...

with Arctic sea ice now shrinking at a rate of 12.2% per decade, six times as fast as the 1990s. Specifically, NASA launched ARCSIX to try to find out how long the sea ice in the Arctic had left ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Florida Panthers forward Brad Marchand, who was acquired in a trade by the Panthers from the Boston Bruins ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land. Now, tens of thousands ... encompasses the coldest inhabited place on earth. Some of the oldest mammoth ...

BLUE EARTH COUNTY, Minn. — A man was rescued from a lake after falling through the ice Tuesday afternoon while ice fishing in southern Minnesota. According to the Blue Earth County Sheriff's ...

Upon denial, she tried to reenter the U.S. and was detained by ICE, her father, Paul Burke, said in an “urgent appeal” on social media. She had reportedly been backpacking on the continent since Jan.