"It does not undermine the need for mitigation efforts." Scientists make surprising discovery that could have massive impact ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet unleash extraordinary heat and pressure.

Where They Were Built: In the forested Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, many farming and hunting tribes built longhouses.

A landslide in Greenland caused a giant wave and a mysterious 92-second seismic hum that traveled around the planet for nine ...

A new documentary is shedding light on a remarkable period in Earth’s history—one when large parts of Greenland, now buried ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of Atlantic Ocean currents that redistributes heat and nutrients between the tropics and the North Atlantic, is one of the planet's ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

Researchers found Antarctic melt only delays - never prevents - the AMOC’s long decline, with major impacts on weather, seas, ...