Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

Melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is putting incredible pressure on animals like polar bears, penguins, seals, and ...

The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the ...

Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

Researchers initially attributed mysterious sea-level shifts — multiple peaks in some regions and falls in others — mainly to ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...