The recent sighting of a gray whale near Nantucket has captivated the scientific community. Once thought extinct in the ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were taken aback ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

Scientists have been left concerned over a discovery after they sent a robot to the 'Doomsday Glacier'. In case you didn't know, the glacier - which is officially known as the Thwaites Glacier - is ...

The decline of the island’s ice and increasingly volatile weather have made it hard to maintain some Indigenous traditions.

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.