The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...

Prudhoe Ice Dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ...

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