Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

A massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier buried much of the Swiss village of Blatten under ice, mud and rocks. The even was equivalent in force to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake, ...

Predicting the extent of Arctic sea ice in September has significant implications for climate change and shipping in the ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

A partnership between Natural Habitat Adventures, a leading conservation travel company, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ...

The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees ...

120 m resolution ice masks for the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1972 to 2022. The presence of ice was determined from 237,556 manually and AI-derived terminus positions acquired by satellite optical and ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

The first-ever direct flights from the United States to Greenland will give tourists easier access to the island’s history, ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting fast, and the process may be impossible to stop, a new study has warned.

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...