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

A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

“2023 was a record wildfire season in Canada, and a lot of the smoke from Canada gets transported over to Greenland,” Khan said. Her team will study how many dark particles the smoke deposited on the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice." In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...