NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone—2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch ...

A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.

Ice loss in Greenland is already large, irreversible, and greatly accelerated after centuries of near stability. Though a ...

Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Stanford researchers have combined machine learning with high-resolution satellite and airplane observations to understand ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

Freshwater from melting ice sheets can slow the critical ocean circulation that helps regulate the planet’s climate ...