A new video shows just what a 1km ice sheet would actually look like next to the Scottish city of Dundee.
Scientists have identified more than 50 bodies of water hidden deep beneath Greenland's ice sheet.
For the first time ever, scientists have found an impact crater beneath one of the Earth's continental ice sheets.
A large hole in the King Baudoin ice shelf has challenged what we know of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
A new species of sea anemone has been found that clings to the underside of Antarctica's ice sheets.
Researchers have uncovered an active volcano deep below the thick Antarctic ice sheet.
Tiny bubbles of air dating back over 1.5 million years could be trapped under the Antarctic ice sheet.
A vast chasm has been discovered beneath an ice sheet in Greenland that rivals the Grand Canyon.
The amount of Greenland's ice sheet that has melted this month has reached unprecedented levels.
A thriving pea soup of plankton has been found living in the frozen depths below arctic ice sheets.
Work being carried out on the Arctic ice sheets could aid in the hunt for life on other worlds.
Despite talk of global warming and melting ice sheets the Himalayan glaciers appear to be growing.
Under the vast ice sheets of Antarctica there exists an extensive mountain range entirely encompassed in the ice. Now an...
It is thought that global warming could cause the Earth's axis to tilt significantly within the next hundred years, with...
Scientists have used rader to peer in to the past in Antarctica's Gamburstev mountains, revealing peaks and valleys buri...