Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

Hidden beneath the thick, frozen skin of East Antarctica lies a surprising discovery—ancient river-carved landscapes that may ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

Understanding Why Antarctic Ice Loss Matters Antarctica may seem like another world—cold, distant, and forgotten—but what goes on there is already beginning to affect Antarctica may be remote, but ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While this works well, natura ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

Siila Watt-Cloutier remembers gliding by dog sled across the frozen Arctic as a child — past landscapes that are now ...

A small settlement in Greenland is holding its collective breath as an iceberg of titanic proportions drifts dangerously ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

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