An Antarctic ice shelf that’s been cracking up for years is now very close to giving birth to an iceberg roughly 30…
Something strange is happening to the northernmost city in the United States. It’s the dead of winter, and temperatures…
The glaciers blanketing the high mountains of central Asia are smaller than we thought, according to a new analysis…
It’s no secret that Earth’s ice sheets are shrinking as temperatures rise. But this planetary meltdown isn’t just a…
If climate change has its way, the seeds the world is saving for doomsday might just be able to grow in the Arctic,…
Last year, a team of scientists embarked on a mission to explore the seafloor exposed when a Delaware-sized iceberg…
Antarctica is the font of bad news that just keeps on giving. Thwaites Glacier, among the most threatened hunks of ice…
The latest sign of just how screwed the Arctic is: moss that hasn’t seen the light of day in at least 40,000 years is…
A team of scientists is warning that the double whammy of a naturally recurring weather pattern and rising temperatures…
When scientists talk about Antarctic melting, they’re usually referring to West Antarctica, where giant coastal…
There is no clearer sign of Arctic transformation than the age of its sea ice. Findings released on Tuesday show that…
In July 2012, a spate of warm weather caused nearly the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet to begin melting, an e…
While the internet was obsessing over that rectangular iceberg, some more disconcerting icy behavior went down on the…
Greenland may look like a big solid hunk of ice. But hidden beneath that shiny surface, the truth is a bit more…
The Antarctic is no stranger to weird sounds, from ancient trapped air bubbles popping to entire ice sheets…
Everyday it feels like science fiction and reality slide ever closer together. In the latest edition of “could this…
It’s no secret that ice around the world is receding as global temperatures rise. Even so, the sudden destabilization…
We’ve seen a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late. A map that shows the thickness of the entire Antarctic…
On September 15, NASA will launch a laser 310 miles above the Earth to scan our planet’s ice sheets like never before,…
East Antarctica has long been hailed as a bastion of continuity in the rapidly unraveling Antarctic. The West Antarctic…
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