Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...

Researchers found that land water loss exceeded Greenland's ice melt contribution to sea level rise in the early 2000s. The Washington Post explains how this massive soil moisture decline affects ...

This month, I will focus on what I believe is the most important driver of climate change away from human behaviour. Read ...

Miilu Gehlert has just spent hours captaining a water taxi deep into the Nuuk Fjord, a winding waterway that lies just north ...

Explorers who crossed the Greenland ice sheet this season reported encountering rivers of meltwater and unstable snowpack, ...

A series of ocean currents in the Atlantic drive heat northward and control much of the world’s weather. Scientists believe the current — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.

An ancient fragment of glacial ice was blessed by Pope Leo XIV on stage at a climate conference, imparting words of hope to ...

The planet's warming climate is having effects in Antarctica that increasingly resemble those observed in the Arctic, meaning ...

Studies of historic ice sheets, such as Kelley and Jackson's, allow researchers to learn what caused them to collapse. Ice ...

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his ...