The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

A new analysis says human-caused climate change had a key role in the record-breaking heat wave in Iceland and Greenland in ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

The findings matched with data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service showing May this year to be the second-warmest globally on record ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

Greenland is not interested in becoming a major mining superpower, instead prioritizing environmental standards and a limited ...

COPENHAGEN — Greenland’s ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report ...