Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Climate change is a term that’s been tossed around quite a bit over the past few decades. But it’s not just a buzzword—it’s a ...

The United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have evaluated the state of water and climate ...

Bedrock rises through the ice in places, making for summit vistas that extend uninterrupted across the polar ice cap for hundreds of miles ... record is invaluable for understanding how Earth’s ...

"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we’re trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

Feb. 24, 2025 — It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and ... of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate models and better ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

but also with weather stations to understand the Arctic climate system. In the 1970s, painstaking laboratory work on the Camp Century ice core extracted minuscule amounts of ancient air trapped in ...