In a part of the world where throughout history only the pure white of snow and ice could be seen, today green moss and grass ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

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

A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 ...

Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.