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A huge thphites glacier in western Antarctica contains enough ice to add a quarter inch to global sea levels should it collapse altogether. Increasing global sea level by 65 cm would transform the shoreline. The glacier would...

Ice sheets in the Himalayas have shrunk at a rate tenfold faster than in the preceding 10 centuries. The rapid ice melt threat to agriculture and water supplies to millions of South Asia, the study, published on Monday in the...

A sustained heatwave in a Siberian city last year helped to set a record temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius (38F), bringing widespread concern over the severity of global warming, the UN agency confirmed on Tuesday (14...

The Thwaites glacier, the same size as the UK, already throws 50 billion tons of ice into the ocean every year – the huge Antarctic Thwaites Glacier, known as the “apex glacier” because of the acute danger of...