Ice in the Arctic and Antarctica plays a critical role in maintaining life on Earth, and it is melting faster than previously thought. This is threatening our planet with potentially massive sea-level ...

In Alaska’s capital, a retreating glacier has turned from postcard backdrop into a recurring threat, sending sudden torrents ...

Melting ice sheets open up land and sea that were previously inaccessible, presenting new — albeit dangerous — opportunities.

Water systems are being depleted faster than nature can replenish them, and many can no longer return to their historical ...

DEHRADUN: The traditional blanket of white that defines winter in the high-altitude shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri ...

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 ...

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

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have found a new layer under Greenland's ice sheet that ...

Seismic imaging detects subglacial sediments up to 650 feet thick, letting glaciers slide faster over soft beds than rock and ...

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 ...