Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

Scientists are warning that volcanoes buried under ice sheets are not as dormant as they look. As glaciers thin and retreat, ...

"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," ...

The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a U.S. science agency announced recently, as climate change ...

Mountain glaciers in Western Canada have trapped evidence of climate events that can help forecast the future in the region ...

Bedrock drilled from beneath Greenland’s ice shows a vast dome melted within the last 10,000 years, suggesting today’s ...

Researchers discovered that pollution from North America's largest oil field has created multiple feedback loops accelerating ...

A monumental study has revealed that Greenland's Prudhoe Dome has a historic melting past remarkably similar to today’s ...

When the researchers first arrived at their field camp at Prudhoe Dome, atop the Greenland ice sheet, they felt they had been swallowed by a monster. The mountain of ice in northwest Greenland was ...

Deep in Antarctica sits a massive slab of ice known as the Thwaites Glacier. Scientists often call it the “Doomsday Glacier,” ...

Climate tipping points are thresholds within Earth’s climate system beyond which change becomes self-reinforcing and, in some cases, irreversible on human timescales. Rather than unfolding gradually, ...