Melting ice poses various threats to residents living in cryospheric regions. In addition to causing extreme weather events ...

Strong ocean tides could be driving the growth of huge fractures in Antarctica’s ice shelves, new research suggests.

Scientists have discovered ancient, river-carved landscapes beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing new insights into glacier ...

New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that Earth's continents have experienced ...

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...

A rapidly retreating glacier in the Russian Arctic has revealed an ancient whale graveyard.

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

The oldest known ice in Western Europe lay at the summit of the French Alps, with the Mont Blanc glacier acting as an archive ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...