Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to ...

Four key climate systems are showing signs of instability and approaching tipping points with potentially abrupt and ...

Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...

Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

How could a glacier thousands of miles away remake the coastline of Florida? The answer is yes, say leading scientists and ...

When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike ...

Commissioned on Sept. 8 in Severomorsk, the ship is the first of two new vessels that combine icebreaking capability with ...