A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

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

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

One of the great marvels of nature is how bears, the largest carnivore in North America, are able to hibernate all winter, ...

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

The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...

Melting sea ice also has negative implications for marine life, tourism in polar regions and global shipping. It’s important for military activities, Indigenous communities in Alaska and the ...

Glacier melting is having real-world effects, demonstrating how much damage climate change can do. "There's a tide gauge down at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal," said Bell. "And sea levels have just ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

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 ...