Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

Arctic faces a new threat. Soot from Canada's massive wildfires darkens ice and snow. This speeds up melting. The albedo ...

Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, but not enough to offset an even greater acceleration caused by changes in ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

Researchers examining 20 years' data on orca sightings discovered a worrying migration trend linked to receding Arctic ice.

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is exacerbated by climate change. When most Americans think about climate change, ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...