Rising temperatures of the world's oceans threaten to accelerate the melting and splintering of glaciers—thereby potentially ...

A melting glacier in Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that melting Arctic ice has opened new shipping lanes ...

Scientists studying Antarctica have discovered that northerly winds—not westerlies—are driving major ice loss in West ...

NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the ...

New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

At Dachstein, the changes have been dramatic with a summer heat wave uncovering the Hunerkogel, a ski lift built in 1969 and ...

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

Antarctic ice is melting. But exactly which forces are causing it to melt and how melting will influence sea level rise are areas of active research. Understanding the decay of ice shelves, which ...

Researchers working in Canada have trialed technology to thicken Arctic sea ice. They pump seawater out from under the ice, ...

Alsek Glacier disconnected from a mountain called Prow Knob sometime this past summer, making way for Alsek Lake to surround ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...