Scientists have uncovered a hidden Antarctic threat that could accelerate global sea level rise far faster than expected.

Melting Arctic ice on Baffin Island, Canada, has revealed ancient tundra plants. These well-preserved specimens are over ...

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant slowdown in Arctic sea ice melting since 2012, with a decrease rate of 11.3% per ...

Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the thinning ice cover, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are becoming far more ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much ...

Arctic sea ice is melting at an alarming rate this summer because of record high temperatures. The heat had an especially devastating impact in Greenland. According to NASA scientists, the ice sheet ...

Cloud cover seen from the ground. (Colorado State University / Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Tiny particles bubbling up from melting Arctic sea ice play a key ...

June-July(JJ) Arctic sea ice extent related to the second half of South Asian summer monsoon rainfall (i.e., August-September :AS). (a) Detrended and normalized (by its standard deviation) Arctic sea ...