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Late Cretaceous Period may have been ice-free

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 13:16

A researcher has said that he has found proof suggesting that no ice sheet formed during the late Cretaceous Period when the climate was much warmer than today.

Huge ice sheets melting `at rate of 300bn tonnes a year`

Last Updated: Monday, July 15, 2013, 11:08

Massive ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are losing around 300 billion tonnes of ice every year, new research has indicated.

World`s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than thought

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 12:26

A research team has argued that high ancient shorelines do not necessarily reflect ice sheet collapse millions of years ago.

Warming ocean layers melt polar ice sheets faster

Last Updated: Monday, July 4, 2011, 16:38

The subsurface ocean layers surrounding the polar ice sheets will warm substantially as global warming progresses.