A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...

Far beneath Antarctica’s ice and fringing seas, scientists have revealed a labyrinth of more than 300 hidden canyons that ...

In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

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

Schleupner is a Roanoke native, physician and father of five children who will inherit this planet. Corbin Wellford’s letter from June 27 (“Itty-bitty ice caps can do all that?”) asks a valid question ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

CAPE DENISON, Antarctica (Reuters) - An Antarctic expedition has found what it believes to be remains of the first aeroplane brought to the frozen continent, on an icy shore near where it was ...