NASA: Global warming now changing how Earth wobbles

Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study says, highlighting what one expert said is the "large" impact humans have on the planet.

Antarctica gaining more ice than losing – (NASA)

 Antarctica has been accumulating more ice than it’s been losing in recent decades, a new study by NASA has revealed, challenging existing theories on climate change and rises in sea levels.

Weather station to track impact of El Niño in Peru

A group of U.S. university researchers are now in the Peruvian Andes to track the impact the current El Niño cycle might have on the region's ice caps.

Collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet unstoppable (U.S. studies)

The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds enough ice to raise global seas by up to 15 feet (about 4.6 meters), is already underway and appears to be "unstoppable," two separate U.S. studies said Monday.

"There's been a lot of speculation about the stability of marine ice sheets, and many scientists suspected that this kind of behavior is under way," Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, said in a statement about one of the studies. "This study provides a more quantitative idea of the rates at which the collapse could take place."