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This is a reprint of a news release posted by the University of Bristol (UK) on Aug 29, 2012. The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to research published today (Aug 29) in...

The Earth contains around five million cubic miles of ice and 80 per cent of this is in East Antarctica ice sheet alone Scientists believe it would take more than 5,000 years for all the Earth’s ice to melt Earth hasn’t been ice-free since...

The enormous sheets of ice that lie atop Greenland may not be as prone to catastrophic melting as many scientists thought, even if the planet continues to warm and temperatures remain high for hundreds of years. But while that may sound like good news...

Science has confirmed it. Human-caused warming is killing Antarctica’s massive Pine Island Glacier (PIG). And this week’s release of a chunk of ice larger than Guam into the southern ocean is just one of the many major losses that will occur...

Warm currents, other factors have caused chain reaction, NASA says Region has enough ice to raise global sea levels by 4 feet, scientists say Researcher: Melting could take several hundred years, but could have impact this century (CNN) — The...