Two new studies of the North and South Poles remind us that the global climate system remains unpredictable, defying ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar ... Feb. 24, 2025 — It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery—one that, if solved, could help them make more ...

Marinoan global glaciation lasting 4 million years confirmed; stable ice defies current climate models and biological ...

Everywhere on Earth ice is changing. The famed snows of Kilimanjaro ... Yellow bulldozers and graders patrol the coast like sentries. There are no words, though, to describe how much, and how ...

After decades of contributing to rising sea levels, Antarctica’s massive ice sheet has started growing again — at least for now. A study published this week in Science China Earth Sciences ...

Ice, ironically, defines Greenland ... It also has large deposits of rare earth elements essential to the manufacture of wind turbines and electric vehicles. And the island is known to have ...