When Debbie Clarke Moderow was running the Iditarod — the 1,100-mile sled dog race through Alaska’s frozen interior — she had a moment. Her hands were chapped, her feet were cold and her dogs were ...

Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical "Rosetta Stone" that translates atomic and molecular movements into predictions of larger-scale effects ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled.

These permanently frozen soils, known as permafrost, cover nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's land surface.They've preserved everything from mammoth bones to ancient microbes in nature's ...

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

For nearly 200 years, scientists clung to a simple idea: ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface, creating a thin film of water that lets you slide like Mumble from Happy Feet.

Scientists warn of accelerating sea level rise, ice shelf collapse, climate system disruption, say media reports - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Remarkably, no energy input is required for this to happen, which gave some scientists a cool idea. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the U.S. have ...

Researchers at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences found that icebergs capsize because of the unstable shapes they melt into, further defining the fluid dynamics behind how global warming ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period, a study published in the ...

"Even the fixed reference points in Greenland are slowly shifting," said geodesist Danjal Longfors Berg of the Technical University of Denmark.

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Scientists have long ...