The consequences will be catastrophic. For the Antarctic ice sheet to melt almost completely, a rise in average global ...

Members of the Trump administration called out Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara after he invoked the Nativity story to criticize immigration raids.

New research reveals how ocean warming triggered the large-scale retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream ...

D heat maps show how deep temperature patterns under Greenland help explain uneven ice loss and land motion, improving future ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

Jökulsárlón, a large glacial lagoon in southeast Iceland. Credit: United Nations Photo – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr. Iceland has declared the possible collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current a ...

New research has opened a window into the Arctic’s distant past, by using cosmic dust to reconstruct nearly 30,000 years of sea ice history. The breakthrough, reported last week in a study in the ...

A large cylindrical coring device is deployed vertically into the seafloor and recovered to obtain sediment cores. Credit: The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet — the second largest ice sheet on Earth — has been melting at its fastest rate in 12,000 years due to rising surface temperatures caused by man-made climate change, according ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Ancient sediment pulled from nearly a mile below the Greenland ice sheet — and later stored for roughly two decades at the University at Buffalo, whose researchers are still studying ...

In April 2024, NASA made a remarkable discovery while flying over Greenland’s icy landscape. Using cutting-edge radar technology, the space agency uncovered remnants of a hidden site buried deep ...

For decades, the standard story went like this: as the last ice age waned, Antarctica’s vast ice sheets were believed to be the main engine pushing global sea levels higher. However, a new study turns ...