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When you think about the ramifications of the climate crisis in our polar regions, you’ll likely think about melting ice caps and the consequentially rising sea levels. You might even think of ...

As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for ...

Tom J. Battin is a professor of environmental sciences at the Alpine and Polar Environmental Research Centre, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Nearly half of ...

The Chief Shakes Glacier, along the Stikine River. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.

A research team has found that summer rainfall in the Arctic would increase by about 17% under 2°C global warming, approximately 16% of which is attributed to sea ice retreat. Their findings were ...

Pakistan's mountain communities are experiencing the devastating effects of accelerating glacial retreat, with rising temperatures transforming their water sources into unpredictable threats. Rapidly ...

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It’s likely that you’ve heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...

The 2015 Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was thought to be the threshold for averting severe climate change impacts. But new research says even that level is ...