Sometimes, discoveries are made by mistake. Recently, NASA ended up finding a 60-year-old structure hidden under the ice in ...

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the ...

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

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

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

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

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

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Scientific studies from beneath Greenland’s vast ice sheet have revealed that the region may be far more vulnerable to ...

If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea.