The Southern Ocean exists in a state of precarious balance. The sea is layered, with cold surface water sitting atop ...

Switzerland's glaciers are melting at an alarming pace, with scientists warning the seasonal loss of ice cover began weeks ...

I'm part of a large group of scientists who set out to explore the consequences of summer sea ice loss after the record lows of 2022 and 2023. Together we rounded up the latest publications, then ...

Sea ice loss – especially in the Arctic but also in the Antarctic – is one of the clearest signals of global warming, the National Climate Assessment reported in 2018.

Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — How much sea level rise will coastal communities have to contend with by the end of the century, and beyond? Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding ...

Scientists have discovered a long-lost landscape that's been preserved beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet for 30 million years. Erosion by ancient rivers appears to have carved large, flat surfaces ...

Over the past four summers, Antarctic sea ice extent has hit new lows. I'm part of a large group of scientists who set out to explore the consequences of summer sea ice loss after the record lows ...

Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater ...

How much sea level rise will coastal communities have to contend with by the end of the century, and beyond? Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding throughout the U.S., ...