After warnings that the Arctic could be ice by the early 2030s, scientists hatched a plan to refreeze it. Over recent decades ...

Recent studies have cast doubt on the Marine Ice Cliff Instability (MICI) hypothesis, which posits that the rapid collapse of ...

Arctic tundra now emitting more carbon gases than it absorbs ... Yet, residents of Greenland’s west coast experienced an ...

Researcher Kari Leibowitz traveled to places with some of the harshest winters on Earth to understand how people thrive in ...

Among the many things global warming will be melting this century—sea ice, land glaciers and tourist businesses in seaside ...

This ice sheet holds 10 times more ice and is roughly the size of ... In an effort to understand how this happened, polar ...

The tundra regions have become a net carbon source rather than a carbon sink, the result of permafrost warming, increased ...

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, yet the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can profoundly affect lives around the world.

New research has looked at how the ice sheet has grown and shrunk over its long history, and it has warned that things don't ...

The concept was quickly embraced by scientists trying to raise the alarm about global warming. “We are on the precipice of ...

Deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists and entrepreneurs brave sub-zero temperatures, whipping winds and snowstorms to drill holes through the sea ice to pump out the seawater below and freeze it on ...

Periods of sudden melting in the Antarctic ice sheet have been discovered in a new climate record dating back over 20 million years.