Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...

In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...

A new review has revealed that the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), the Southern Hemisphere's most influential climate driver, is ...