“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

Tiny ice quakes drive ice stream movement, reshaping our understanding of glacial flow and sea-level rise predictions.

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years ...

The wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane over the Potomac River in Washington DC has been removed from the crash site and is being examined by the ...

An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice sheet and ...

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell ...

Discover why Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth, with an average annual precipitation of just 50 millimetres.

(CNN) — Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and the next, he was in the hospital paralyzed from the chest down ...

A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ...

If it gets stuck near South Georgia Island, that could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young could starve.