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

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

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

Arctic faces a new threat. Soot from Canada's massive wildfires darkens ice and snow. This speeds up melting. The albedo ...

This anomaly, which has cooled even as surrounding waters have warmed, is now better understood thanks to new research led by ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

In recent weeks, Western reports revealed a jarring contradiction in the US polar strategy. The US "big and beautiful" bill ...

These stunning, prize-winning images of nature seen from above reveal a new perspective of our planet’s landscapes, oceans ...

Contrary to the dry weather pattern witnessed in June, the summer month of May had seen a good amount of rainfall because of the early onset of the southwest monsoon. The rainfall in May cannot be not ...

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

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