Greenland's largest glacier, Jakobshavn Glacier, may be edging closer to a critical threshold as meltwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet accelerates in ways not seen in over a century, according ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been ...

Cortina is a town that has historically been surrounded by glacier-capped mountains visible from the city, but melting glaciers have changed the view.

It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been ...

It takes only one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) of average global warming to melt the fragile crystals that blanket our mountains and backyards in the dark season. When we lose them, we will ...

Scientists testing a popular climate theory in Antarctica found that melting glaciers deliver far less iron to the ocean than ...

New research showed that meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in the Southern Ocean which ultimately may have played a part in bringing the ice ages to an end.

The more glaciers melt, the more tourists are drawn to them, as if to watch the floating giants fade away while they still can. People who visit glaciers do so for a variety of reasons: because they ...

A coalition of historical groups, parks advocacy organizations and scientists are suing the National Park Service for removing signs about climate change, Indigenous history, slavery and other ...