When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of Atlantic Ocean currents that redistributes heat and nutrients between the tropics and the North Atlantic, is one of the planet's ...

Located in the mountains of western Norway, the facility was likely used by Iron Age hunters to trap and kill wild reindeer.

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, feasting on seals and occasionally other sea mammals. Its hunting skills ...

A glaciologist and climate scientist is sounding the alarm at COP30 about the rapid shrinking of glaciers all over the world, ...