Also known by its scientific - and less exciting - name, Thwaites Glacier, the glacier floats at the northern edge of the ...

"The melting of ice cores is a big issue." Scientists make chilling discovery hidden deep within centuries-old ice cores: 'We ...

The domestically built Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, which took part in China's 41st Antarctic expedition, initially departed ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice." In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

The first-ever direct flights from the United States to Greenland will give tourists easier access to the island’s history, ...

There's an entire mountain range as big as the European Alps completely hidden under Antarctica's ice that no one has ever ...

Multiple studies suggest 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is “far too high” to prevent rapid ice sheet retreat that would be ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level ...