Northeast Greenland is home to the 79° N Glacier—the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously ...

Melting glaciers release more than just water. Organic matter once trapped in ice can run into streams and rivers, where it ...

Project Iceworm, a scheme hatched by the United States Army in the late nineteen-fifties, lent new meaning to the phrase ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

In The Age of Melt, science journalist Lisa Baril takes the reader on a well-crafted and entertaining journey into Earth’s frozen realms. This ‘cryosphere’ includes the great polar ice sheets in ...

Rapid warming in the Arctic is transforming coastal ecosystems, with significant, often overlooked impacts on both nature and ...

The increasing rate of glacier melt has meant Switzerland's border with Italy has been redrawn — here's why, and how.

The Thwaites Glacier, whose size is comparable to that of Great Britain, has experienced alarming deterioration in recent decades. Between the 1990s and 2010, the rate of its melting more than doubled ...

Scientists have concluded that an unprecedented global seismic signal, first noticed in September 2023, was caused by a ...

Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk by more than 10 percent in just two years. This alarming data, recently released by the ...