An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of all freshwater ice on Earth is sitting on top of Greenland ... it would take hundreds to thousands of years for it all to melt away. But what if something happened ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles ... level catastrophe, but Earth’s rising heat might make much of it uninhabitable.

Scientists have long debated which factors drive these cold periods, and new research sheds light on the rare combination of ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner.

A recent study finds that algae can store nutrients, potentially allowing them to spread across more of the ice sheet, ...

"It's like watching the Statue of Liberty melt." Scientists who assess the planet's health see indisputable evidence that Earth ... sea ice has thinned significantly over the past half century ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds around 90 per cent of all the fresh water on Earth and has the potential to cause massive increases in sea levels should it melt. While this paper does not suggest ...

More than half a billion years ago ... crept over frozen land toward an ice-covered sea, they scoured the ground beneath them, gouging and scraping rocks from Earth’s crust. When the glaciers ...

The world's glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impact of climate change, according to the most ...

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

The Earth formed over ... the University of Chicago make precise measurements of lunar samples to determine exactly what they’re made of, and identify the chemical fingerprints of different geological ...