Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

R esearchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand ...

More than 120 people – half of the them children – have died in the past three weeks. Is climate change to blame?

A new study in Progress in Oceanography is giving scientists more insight. According to The Barents Observer, air ...

There are three cities said to be at risk of being swallowed if the so-called ‘Doomsday Glacier’ melts.

Glacial ice offers a detailed record of the atmosphere, preserved in discrete layers, providing researchers with a valuable tool for studying human history. A sample taken from a glacier in the ...

Climate change is likely to have an explosive consequence: volcanic eruptions. Antarctic glaciers have been slowly melting as ...

Scientists link Antarctic record sea ice loss to an unexplained spike in ocean salt levels, raising concerns about ocean stability.

Glaciers in western North America and Switzerland experienced their largest mass losses over the past four years ...

The Storis, named using a Scandinavian word that means “great ice,” will be the first new icebreaker to join the polar fleet ...