This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been ...

Arctic sea-ice is currently at its smallest recorded extent for the time of year, while Antarctic sea-ice is close to a new ...

America is bracing for the coldest arctic blast of the season as a polar vortex is set to bring 'most severe' cold snap and ...

The US is preparing for its 10th cold snap caused by the polar vortex this season as meteorologists warn it could be the ...

Another round of snowy, chilly weather is gripping the United States this week, extending the frigid start to the year across ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...