The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is a scenario that ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold ...

A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

Glacier melting is having real-world effects ... of glaciers. "All the roundness of the hills that we see is glacial," said Bell. "The river certainly, there was ice flowing down there.

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set ... term loss of Arctic sea ice in all seasons.” Sea ice is frozen ocean water that has an annual cycle of melting during the summer and ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record low ... long-term loss of Arctic sea ice in all seasons.” Sea ice is frozen ocean water that has an annual cycle of melting during the summer and refreezing ...