The prehistoric skis were buried underneath the glacier for over a thousand years before researchers made the discovery ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

Since covid brought the world to a standstill in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be.

Initially designed for preserving frozen food, this material scatters ... for example) can reduce ice melt by 50–70% per year 9. Such synthetic blankets are already being used commercially ...

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 ...

The Earth's warming is behind the permafrost thaw—a process which refers to the melting of the ice in the frosty soil of ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Greenland’s government banned drilling for fossil fuels in 2021 — yet Donald Trump and his allies remain eager to see ...

See All Key Ideas Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: A clear sign of climate change and a planet quickly exiting the stable state that gave rise to ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

were driven by a melting glacier that slowly filled a basin below it until the basin’s ice dam broke. Avalanches, rockfalls and slope failures can also trigger glacial lake outburst floods. These are ...