This trend is playing out across the globe. From the 1960s to 2020, China's glacier area has declined by 26 percent, with nearly 7,000 small glaciers disappearing entirely. A UN report confirms that ...

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Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

The UNDP-led report shows that climate change is increasingly driving conflict in fragile regions, but also demonstrates that well-designed, inclusive climate action can reduce tensions and strengthen ...

Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a ...

Learn how glaciers melt and contribute to seas rising in this animated explainer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Glaciers harbor both ancient and human-derived antibiotic resistance genes, preserved in ice and increasingly mobilized by ...

Glacial ice is vanishing, but what if we could freeze time? A daring mission in Antarctica may have just done exactly that.

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...