In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe's Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of ...

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

STORY: Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, the U.N. weather body said on ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

Greenland lacks a road or rail network, so people rely on helicopters, planes and boats to get around. Rising temperatures and melting ice are meanwhile opening new and shorter shipping routes, ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

But, slowing currents will come with consequences on land and in the ocean ... open image in gallery Melting ice sheets are ...

“On the west coast of Green­land, around a tenth of the ice melt is already caused by these mi­cro­scopic in­hab­it­ants. In some cases, they darken the gla­cier sur­face so much that is even vis­ible ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Inhabited by Inuits on and off for almost 4,500 years, the island was originally dubbed 'Green land' by ... shown that the melting of Greenland's ice sheet has picked ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...