Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet's icy surface. In a study appearing in Nature ...

Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, but not enough to offset an even greater acceleration caused by changes in ...

Imagine the world without Antarctica's ice sheets. If Antarctica were to melt entirely, it would trigger an unprecedented ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

A cyanobacterial mat fragment sampled from the edge of a meltwater pond during a 2018 Antarctic expedition. (Roger Summons / MIT Summons Lab) (CN) — Scientists led by a team from the Massachusetts ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

Some relatively new discoveries, and new technologies, tell a remarkable story about New Hampshire’s ancient coastline and ...

Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...

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