Greenpeace has released a new series of images illustrating the extent of polar ice retreat in the Arctic. View on euronews ...

The melting is affected by a large area of open ocean in front of the ice shelf that is empty of sea-ice due to strong offshore winds. This area, known as the Ross Sea Polynya, absorbs solar heat ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on ... but Earth’s rising heat might make much of it uninhabitable.

Because this is an ocean-surface process, this heat is instantly available to melt the overlying ice: it doesn't have to wait to be mixed upward to the ice base. Ekman heat transport is ...

The principle is simple - you heat the water with a bank of boilers to just below boiling point and then spray it onto the ice, melting your way down. But drilling a 30cm hole through almost half ...