The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is undergoing a glacially slow but unstoppable collapse, new studies show, and scientists say that means a bigger rise in sea level than previously thought.

Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic Peninsular than at any time in the last 1,000 years, research has shown.

THE planet faces irreversible climate change if drastic action is not taken to prevent an increase in temperature of 2C.

CLIMATE change poses a greater risk to the world than was previously thought as global warming advances at an unsustainable rate, a report warned yesterday.

ROCKS in Antarctica have provided the most direct evidence yet that parts of the ice sheet have been naturally melting for thousands of years, it emerged yesterday.