The latest data show that the area of melting ice this year is unusually high. On June 12th 712,000 square kilometres of the ice-sheet (over 40% of the total) were melting.

The loss of the entire ice sheet would raise them by more than seven metres, enough to reconfigure the majority of the world’s coastlines. In the 1980s and 1990s, Greenland’s ice maintained a ...

The Earth’s ice sheets lost enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high, according to new research.. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold almost all of ...