When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ...

New research has revealed that emperor penguins are experiencing a faster-than-expected decline due to shrinking Antarctic ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to ...

The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ...

Arctic sea ice extent in May declined at a slightly faster pace compared to average. In Antarctica, the Bellingshausen Sea ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

Scientists have made a significant discovery which has impacted their understanding of the potential effects climate change.

By Austyn Gaffney Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi. That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and ...

Their unprecedented appearance on land is a sign of the drastic impact of climate change on northern sea ice and wildlife. A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc ...

Sea ice strongly scatters light and reflects much of it, while allowing only a small amount to penetrate. Yet, this limited amount of light still contains almost the full range of visible wavelengths.

Last month, less sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean than in any other July since scientists began keeping track of it with satellites in 1979, marking another step toward a devastating and planet ...

The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address ...