A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience ...

Melting Arctic ice enables nitrogen-fixing microbes to feed algae and absorb carbon, challenging old climate views.

We usually think of ice as just frozen water. It is simple, solid, and cold. But water is a master of disguise. With just two ...

Glaciers around the globe are melting at an alarming rate, and it’s not just causing sea levels to rise—it’s actually ...

The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models ...

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...

Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global temperatures rise. This melting will, in turn, contribute to sea level rise and ...

Rising temperatures of the world’s oceans threaten to accelerate the melting and splintering of glaciers—thereby potentially increasing the number of icebergs and, with it, the need to better ...

An Italian scientist conducting research on the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska fell into a stream of meltwater and then plunged into a shaft in the ice. "The water then pushed him into a moulin, which ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

Melting ice in Antarctica has created a freshwater cap, trapping CO₂ in the Southern Ocean. Learn how this fragile carbon ...

For nearly 200 years, scientists clung to a simple idea: ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface, ...