Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that ...

Greenland’s bedrock is shifting, rising, and sliding northwest as ancient and modern ice loss reshape the island beneath the ...

"The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice" looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath ice sheet that was stored at ...

Glaciers San Rafael and San Quintin have retreated significantly since 1987, showing the impact of global warming on Earth's ...

"The range of possible outcomes is a lot wider than anybody has appreciated until now." ...

Ice sheets are melting, causing the tectonic plates to shift and setting Greenland adrift. According to researchers, Greenland is expanding and contracting at the same time, much like the rest of the ...

The Arctic Ocean was once an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere — and it could become one again, ...

The research is another sign that climate heating caused mainly by fossil fuel pollution is pushing the climate toward ...

The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s doorstep.

Continental shelf seas—the shallow waters surrounding our coasts that provide most of the world's seafood—are absorbing more ...