Antarctic summer ice melt is now occurring 10 times faster than it did 600 years ago, with ice loss speeding up the most since mid-20th century, new research has warned.

The 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction was published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Summer ice melt affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers.

Summer ice in the Antarctic is melting 10 times quicker than it was 600 years ago, with the most rapid melt occurring in the last 50 years, a joint Australian-British study showed Monday.

Hunters have slaughtered 3,500 reindeer on a British island near Antarctica to try to get rid of the animals that were brought from Norway a century ago and are an increasing threat to native wildl

Greenland is less vulnerable than expected to a runaway melt that would drive up world sea levels, according to scientists who found that only a quarter of the ice sheet thawed in a warm period mor

About 3,000 reindeer on an island near Antarctica are to be slaughtered to stop damage to the environment by the descendants of a tiny herd introduced a century ago for food by Norwegian whale hunt

London: Rise in sea levels in the future due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than IPCC estimates, according to a new first-of-its-kind study. Researchers from the University of Bristol found that the future rise in sea levels predicted by the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be even greater.

The ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland contain about 99.5% of Earth’s glacial ice which would raise global sea level by some 63m if they were to melt completely.

Temperatures in the western part of Antarctica are rising almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to fears that continued thaws are causing sea levels to rise, according to comprehensiv

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose melt currently contributes substantially to sea level rise each year, is warming twice as quickly as previously thought, a new study has found.