Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates ...

Remarkably, no energy input is required for this to happen, which gave some scientists a cool idea. Researchers at the ...

Water may appear simple but behaves in ways that surprise even the world’s greatest scientists. A new international study has ...

Researchers at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences found that icebergs capsize because of the unstable shapes ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

For nearly 200 years, scientists clung to a simple idea: ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface, ...

Join us on an intriguing journey as we explore the fascinating process of snow melting. In this video, we dive into the ...

As long as natural CO₂ doesn’t surface from the deep ocean, the Southern Ocean can continue to absorb anthropogenic CO₂, a ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Buried Louisiana marshes show North America, not Antarctica, fueled the world’s dramatic sea level surge 9,000 years ago.

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and ...