The climate is changing and nowhere is it changing faster than at Earth's poles. Researchers at Penn State have painted a ...

Another year of low sea ice is shaping Arctic weather patterns, and Minnesota is feeling the effects. Plus, it's putting ...

We know about fossils and rocks, ice cores and seabeds... but it turns out the Earth has been storing data - on climate, ...

At a remote field camp, scientists and engineers are on a mission to discover when and how fast the West Antarctic could melt ...

The researchers analysed blood samples taken from polar bears in two regions of Greenland and compared “jumping genes”: small ...

In an age of rising sea levels, as polar ice sheets melt in a climate warmed by fossil fuel emissions, climate modelers are racing to understand what the future might hold for coastlines around the ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

It reads like a Hollywood plot – a team crossing crevasse-riddled sea ice to drill 500m for geological evidence that could ...

Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic ...

There could be an irreversible retreat of parts of the ice sheets, raising sea levels much faster than currently planned.

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...