An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than expected.

Alaska’s Juneau Icefield is melting at an alarming rate, losing 50,000 gallons per second. Scientists warn of irreversible ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

The Alps, home to the iconic Aletsch Glacier, are undergoing a dramatic transformation. Satellite imagery spanning four ...

Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see ...

Sea ice is frozen ocean water that has an annual cycle of melting during the summer and refreezing in winter. The sea ice floats on the ocean. The region reaches its maximum extent of sea ice in ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- It's not just in the movies; the ice on our planet ... the Rockies, Alaska," Robin Bell, geophysicist and glaciologist, said. Glacier melting is having real-world effects ...

A female polar bear swam 687 km across the freezing Beaufort Sea over nine days, a feat first reported in 2011. The video ...

The ARCSIX plane flew in the summer of 2024, from May until July 25, when seasonal sea ice melt was at its height ... kilometers),an area bigger than Alaska, Texas, California and Montana combined ...