Traditionally, melting sea ice is expected to freshen ocean surface waters, as freshwater from the ice dilutes the salty sea.

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

New research is challenging the ongoing debate about the Arctic's glacial past, suggesting that the region may never have ...

The conversation on Greenland "can never be about annexation", Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has said. View on ...

Scientists have discovered Earth's soil moisture has declined so dramatically that changes may be irreversible in human ...

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

Antarctica has lost sea ice equivalent in area to Greenland – and it has not returned, according to new satellite data. This ...

Even the current level of global warming may already have locked in unstoppable ice melt, with a major new study warning of ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

Scientists find rising ocean salinity in Antarctica, reversing decades-long trends and accelerating sea ice loss.

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

Antarctica has lost a Greenland’s worth of ice, and the shocking changes in the Southern Ocean could reshape our planet’s ...