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, ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

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

Despite its overwhelmingly icy appearance, Antarctica is actually a solid continent of rocky mountains and now experts know ...

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

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice." In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...

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

A team of climate researchers and engineers is working with local Arctic communities to try to address melting sea ice.

New research shows polar ice sheets may begin irreversible collapse even at 1.5°C warming - putting millions at risk.

Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...

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