The start of the year has sometimes come with an extra second added to our clocks. The adjustment is made to coordinate the ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar ...

Researchers discovered more than 30 dead whitebark pine trees that were entombed in ice for millennia, representing a bygone ...

The U.S. would inherit an environmental dilemma of its own making if it lays claim to the massive Arctic island.

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

The West Antarctic Rift System is home to more than 130 volcanoes, and the region’s receding ice sheet could slowly wake them ...

Eruptions of subglacial volcanoes may not be visible on the surface, but they can have consequences for the ice sheet. Heat ...

A comparison of polar sea ice extents on two random days does not provide enough information to determine whether or not ...

New research shows temperate glacier ice flows more steadily than previously thought, leading to lower projections of ...

A cold wave will hit Madison County IL, St Louis MO and much of the Midwest, and a weather expert explains why global warming ...

Scientists in northwest Wyoming found remnants of an ancient forest, frozen in ice on a barren tundra in northwest Wyoming.

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting of ...